battalia

Borrowed from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia (“military exercises”), from Latin battuō (“to strike, beat”), from Gaulish.

battalia

1. (obsolete) Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops or of a naval force, ready for action.
   • 1651, Taylor, Jeremy, “Sermon VI”, in The Sermons of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor‎, Philadelphia: H. Hooker, published 1845, pages 456–457:

     […] but we find, by a sad experience, that few questions are well stated; and when they are, they are not consented to; and when they are agreed on by both sides that they are well stated, it is nothing else but a drawing up the armies in battalia with great skill and discipline; the next thing they do is, they thrust their swords into one another's sides.

   • 1695, Congreve, William, “To the King on the taking of Namur”, in A Complete Edition of the British Poets‎, volume 7, London: John & Arthur Arch, published 1795, stanza IV, page 537:

     Two rival armies all the plain o'erspread, / Each in battalia rang'd, and shining arms array'd

2. (obsolete) An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body.
   • c. 1592, Shakespeare, William, Richard III, act 5, scene 3, line 11:

     Why, our battalia trebles that account;

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