WARLIKE Copy link • WARLIKELike a warrior or war, militaris. He had a manly and warlike appearance, inerat in eo habitus virilis vere ac militaris (cf., Liv., 28, 35, 6): things have a very warlike appearance, omnia belli speciem tenent (after Liv., 5, 41): omnia belli apparatu strepunt (people are every where preparing for war). The whole political horizon wears a warlike aspect, res ad arma spectant. Inclined to or disposed for war, etc., bellicosus (of a warlike disposition; also of time in which many wars are carried on; e.g., Liv., 10, 9, annus bellicosus): ferox (ferocious) ☞ acer, strenuus, impiger, or bonus militiae, belong to the poetic prose of the Silver Age.