bellic
See also: bèl·lic
English
Alternative forms
- bellical
Etymology
From Latin bellicus.
Adjective
bellic (comparative more bellic, superlative most bellic)
- (obsolete) warlike; martial
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
- The bellic Cesar, as Suetonius tells us, was noted for singularity in his Apparel, and did not content himself without adding something to his Senators Purple Robe.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bellic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)