[f. BATTLE v.1 + -ED.]
1. Ranged in battle-array; disposed in battalions.
1592. Wyrley, Armorie, 46. He sommoned braue Dukes, stout Earles and Lordes In batteled armes before him to appeere.
1841. Orderson, Creol., xviii. 213. She could not … stay the ‘battled pestilence.’
2. poet. Fought, contested.
1810. Scott, Lady of L., I. xxxi. Soldier rest! Thy warfare o’er, Dream of battled fields no more.
