Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Order of battle; battle array.
- noun Milit.: A large body of men in order of battle or on the march, whether a whole army or one of the great divisions of it; a host; an army.
- noun The main body or center of an army.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action.
- noun obsolete An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body.
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Examples
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The camp of this main body of cavalry or "battalia," as the body on whom the commander of our army chiefly relied for victory was called, was comparatively still and silent.
By England's Aid Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 1867
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Item, six thousand and sixteen Seleucid birds marching in battalia, and picking up straggling grasshoppers in cornfields.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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The whilk Swedish feathers, although they look gay to the eye, resembling the shrubs or lesser trees of ane forest, as the puissant pikes, arranged in battalia behind them, correspond to the tall pines thereof, yet, nevertheless, are not altogether so soft to encounter as the plumage of a goose.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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Item, six thousand and sixteen Seleucid birds marching in battalia, and picking up straggling grasshoppers in cornfields.
Happy Bastille Day 2008
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Their armies had been drawn up in battalia some days, and the news of a decisive action was expected every hour to arrive at each court.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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After this, Bacchus was seen marching in battalia, riding in a stately chariot drawn by six young leopards.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Item, six thousand and sixteen Seleucid birds marching in battalia, and picking up straggling grasshoppers in cornfields.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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After this, Bacchus was seen marching in battalia, riding in a stately chariot drawn by six young leopards.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Item, six thousand and sixteen Seleucid birds marching in battalia, and picking up straggling grasshoppers in cornfields.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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'Twas an open space we had to cross, dotted with gorsebushes; and the enemy's regiments, plain to see, drawn up in battalia on the slope above, which here was gentler than to the south and west.
The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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