Definition of "battalia" []

• Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action. (noun)
• An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body. (noun)

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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."
• "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."
• "Item, six thousand and sixteen Seleucid birds marching in battalia, and picking up straggling grasshoppers in cornfields."