War"like` (?), a.

1.

Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition.

Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men. Shak.

2.

Belonging or relating to war; military; martial.

The great archangel from his warlike toil Surceased. Milton.

Syn. -- Martial; hostile; soldierly. See Martial.

 

© Webster 1913.

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