Sense

1. war-sustaining

Examples

• Ἀλκαῖοσ δὲ καλεῖ Κωράλιον λέγων "ὦ ’νασσ’ Ἀθανάα "πολεμηδόκοσ, ἅ ποι Κορωνίασ ἐπὶ λαί̈ω ναύω πάροιθεν ἀμφιβαίνεισ Κωραλίω ποταμῶ παρ’ ὄχθαισ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 2 47:4)

Similar forms

• πολεμηδόκος (1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.