duello (duelo)

[ This being well forc'd, and urg'd, may have the power To move most gallants to take kicks in time, And spurn out the duelloes out o' th' kingdom. Fletcher (and another ?), Nice Valour, iii, 1. 2. The art or practice of dueling, or the code of laws which regulate it. The gentleman will, for his honour's sake, have one bout with you: he cannot by the duello avoid it. Shak., T. N., iii. 4. But thee, O Jove! no equall Judge I dee me, Of my desert, or of my derfull Right. duffer That duene , that debt (as I may call it), that obligation, which, according to the law of nature, in a way of meetne and comeline , it was fit for God as a creator to deal with a creature. Good win, Works, L. ii. 199.