battaile
English
Noun
battaile (plural battailes)
- Obsolete spelling of battle.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Therewith they gan to hurtlen greedily, Redoubted battaile ready to darrayne, And clash their shields, and shake their swords on hy, […]
- 1592, Philippe de Mornay, A Discourse of Life and Death:
- Against his foes in battaile shewing force, And after fight in victorie remorse.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book 10, xii
- Withouten battaile, fight, or stroke at all, / Ev'n at noon day I will you safely guide.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 131:
- 1. When ſhall we three meet againe? / In Thunder, Lightning, or in Raine? / 2. When the Hurly-burley's done, / When the Battaile's loſt, and wonne.
- 1616, Alexander Roberts, A Treatise of Witchcraft:
- Thus Ahab seduced by his false prophets descendeth into the battaile, and is slaine (contemning the words of Michaiah) in[m] whose mouthes the diuell was a lying spirit, who sent of the Lord, perswaded him and prevailed, 1.