† comˈbattencieObs.rare—1. [f. late L. type *combattentia: see combat v. The form according to later analogies would be combatancy.] Combatant state, hostility. 1586Warner Alb.Eng. iv. xxii. (1612) 106 Or if Combattencie not please, the land is rich and large And they Copertiners may live, and us of death discharge.