Crossword clues for bellicose
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bellicose \Bel"li*cose`\, a. [L. bellicosus, fr. bellicus of war, fr. bellum war. See Duel.] Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.
Arnold was, in fact, in a bellicose vein.
--W. Irving.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "warlike," from Latin bellicosus "warlike, valorous, given to fighting," from bellicus "of war," from bellum "war," Old Latin duellum, dvellum, which is of uncertain origin.
Wiktionary
a. 1 warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile. 2 Showing or having the impulse to be combative.
WordNet
adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature" [syn: battleful, combative, contentious]
Usage examples of "bellicose".
One was a primitive, a warrior from some small bellicose tribe from way back in the jungle.
The little tingler unit set in the tip of each lance was the most efficient way of goading the stubborn and bellicose veebes into a semblance of movement.
Since the departure of the Vulgar Holy War weeks earlier, more than ten thousand Thunyeri under Prince Skaiyelt, the son of the infamous King Rauschang, and at least four times as many Tydonni under Gothyelk, the bellicose Earl of Agansanor, had arrived.
Even the more bellicose Palatines, such as Gaidekki or Ingiaban, spoke more to score than to solve.
When he continued, his face had reddened and his voice shook with a bellicose resentment.
The old-style thunderers like Senators Borah and Hiram Johnson managed to be both vociferous against war and bellicose against Japan without stumbling over any internal difficulty.
Colonel Louis Johnson, the rather bellicose former Assistant Secretary of War whom Roosevelt had despatched as his special envoy to India, gained the same impression.
Linked to this bellicose nationalism was a return to pre-Civil War patterns in which Southerners were the most ardent proponents of American imperial expansion.
Working with the most popular of American cultural forms, he was conscious of a majority culture, from which the Irish, despite their bellicose loyalty to it, stood somewhat apart.
Chauvinist and bellicose nationalism, although always present, has not become the U.
Caught absolutely red-handed, liberals started in with their typical bellicose counterattacks.
To those ends, I am here to serve, even if it means having to practice the more bellicose side of the art in defense of your realm.
Mercia grabbed the shaft of the lance and lashed out with a cruel kick, catching his bellicose comrade on the point of the chin.
The bull was particularly bellicose in tone and the French retaliated, expelling Italian bankers from the realm and, much more to the point, cutting off the export of money, which denied the papacy a considerable part of its income.
It was this, allied to his bellicose racism and anti-Semitism, that led people to see him as a proto-Nazi.