Obs. Also comilitant. [f. L. commilitānt-em, pr. pple. of commilitāre to fight in company, f. com- + militāre: cf. MILITANT.]
A. sb. A fellow-warrior, fellow-soldier.
1577. Hellowes, Gueuara’s Chron., 222. O most excellent princes and my commilitants.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., xviii. 296. His marshall compere … and brave commilitant.
1728. Morgan, Algiers, II. iv. 258. The disastrous Fate of Barbarossa, and so many of his brave comilitants.
B. adj. Fighting in alliance.
1835. F. Mahony, in Fraser’s Mag. XI. 573. Spain and Brabant comilitant—Bavaria and Castille.
