A god or goddess who presides over war. Also fig.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, V. 30. The War-god … Who raged so on the Ilion side.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. V. iii. (heading), Broglie the War-God.
1860. Geo. Eliot, Mill on Fl., VI. x. Maggie … glared at him like a wounded war-goddess.
1906. W. A. Craigie, Relig. Anc. Scand., i. 15. He [Odin] is a war-god, who assigns victory or defeat to men, and takes the slain warriors to live with himself in Valhall.
