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battel¹

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From Middle English batel, batayle from Old French bataille, from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia (“military exercises”), from Latin battuō (“to strike, hit, beat, fight”), from a Gaulish root, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to stab, dig”). Doublet of battalia and battle.

noun battels · batail · battle

  1. archaic Archaic spelling of battle Great trauail is created to al men, and an heauie yoke vpon the children of Adam, from the day of their comming forth of their mothers wombe, vntil the day of their burying, into the mother of al. Their cogitations, and feares of the hart, imagination of things to come, and the day of their ending:
  2. UK, obsolete A single combat. trial by battel; wager of battel

battel²

adjective more battel · most battel

  1. obsolete fertile; fruitful; productive a battel soil for grain, for pasture good

verb battels · batteling · battelling · batteled · battelled

  1. transitive To make fertile.
  2. ambitransitive, obsolete To supply with provisions from the buttery. Troth, and for mine owne part, I am a poore Gentleman, & a Scholler, I haue beene matriculated in the Vniuerſitie, wore out ſixe Gownes there, ſeene ſome fooles, and ſome Schollers, ſome of the Citty, and ſome of the Countrie, kept order, went bare-headed ouer the Quadrangle, eate my Commons with a
  3. intransitive To stand indebted in the college-books for provisions and drink from the buttery.

noun battels

  1. UK, countable, in plural, uncountable Fees charged by a college for accommodation and living expenses.
  2. UK, countable, in plural, obsolete, uncountable Provisions ordered from the kitchen and buttery.
  3. UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable A small allowance of food collegers receive from their dames (matrons) in addition to their college allowance

battel³

Where it comes from

From Hebrew בטל.

verb battels · battelling · battelled

  1. intransitive To waste, especially time.
  2. transitive To nullify.

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@misc{battel_2026,
  title = {battel},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/battel},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}