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WARLIKE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Suggesting war or military life
Synonyms:
martial; warlike
Classified under:
Similar:
military (characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Disposed to warfare or hard-line policies
Example:
warlike policies
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
unpeaceful (not peaceful)
Context examples:
He and Sir Nigel sat late in high converse as to bushments, outfalls, and the intaking of cities, with many tales of warlike men and valiant deeds.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here, too, when they came, they found the Huns, whose warlike fury had swept the earth like a living flame, till the dying peoples held that in their veins ran the blood of those old witches, who, expelled from Scythia had mated with the devils in the desert. Fools, fools!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Sir Nigel sprang lightly upon the trunk, and stood with blinking eye and firm lips looking down at the ring of upturned warlike faces.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With such examples before them the wives of the English captains had become as warlike as their mates, and ordered their castles in their absence with the prudence and discipline of veteran seneschals.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I hear that there is talk of warlike muster at Bordeaux once more, and by St. Paul! it would be a new thing if the lions of England and the red pile of Chandos were to be seen in the field, and the roses of Loring were not waving by their side.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So long as knight and baron were a strength and a guard to the kingdom they might be endured, but now, when all men knew that the great battles in France had been won by English yeomen and Welsh stabbers, warlike fame, the only fame to which his class had ever aspired, appeared to have deserted the plate-clad horsemen.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When all was completed and the muster called in the castle yard the oldest soldier of the French wars was fain to confess that he had never looked upon a better equipped or more warlike body of men, from the old knight with his silk jupon, sitting his great black war-horse in the front of them, to Hordle John, the giant recruit, who leaned carelessly upon a huge black bow-stave in the rear.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In common garb, his masterful face and flashing eye would have marked him as one who was born to rule; but now, with his silken tunic powdered with golden fleurs-de-lis, his velvet mantle lined with the royal minever, and the lions of England stamped in silver upon his harness, none could fail to recognize the noble Edward, most warlike and powerful of all the long line of fighting monarchs who had ruled the Anglo-Norman race.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Erected by Sir Balwin de Redvers in the old fighting days of the twelfth century, when men thought much of war and little of comfort, Castle Twynham had been designed as a stronghold pure and simple, unlike those later and more magnificent structures where warlike strength had been combined with the magnificence of a palace.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
