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Martial   /mˈɑrʃəl/   Listen
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Martial  adj.  
1.
Of, pertaining to, or suited for, war; military; as, martial music; a martial appearance. "Martial equipage."
2.
Practiced in, or inclined to, war; warlike; brave. "But peaceful kings, o'er martial people set, Each other's poise and counterbalance are."
3.
Belonging to war, or to an army and navy; opposed to civil; as, martial law; a court-martial.
4.
Pertaining to, or resembling, the god, or the planet, Mars.
5.
(Old Chem. & Old Med.) Pertaining to, or containing, iron; chalybeate; as, martial preparations. (Archaic)
Martial flowers (Med.), a reddish crystalline salt of iron; the ammonio-chloride of iron. (Obs.)
Martial law, the law administered by the military power of a government when it has superseded the civil authority in time of war, or when the civil authorities are unable to enforce the laws. It is distinguished from military law, the latter being the code of rules for the regulation of the army and navy alone, either in peace or in war.
Synonyms: Martial, Warlike. Martial refers more to war in action, its array, its attendants, etc.; as, martial music, a martial appearance, a martial array, courts-martial, etc. Warlike describes the feeling or temper which leads to war, and the adjuncts of war; as, a warlike nation, warlike indication, etc. The two words are often used without discrimination.






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... and afterward tried for desertion, for a servant in the Jarrett household, hating all English and wishing them to suffer, even at each other's hands, had betrayed the plan of his master's guest. The court-martial found him guilty and condemned him to be shot. When the execution took place, Ruth, praying and sobbing in her chamber, knew that her husband was no more. The distant sound of musketry reverberated like the roll ...
— Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete • Charles M. Skinner

... and horses cased in proof armor, and when shouts or cries broke out at a distance, and with sore labor the knights struggled to the spot in hopes of an engagement, it proved to have been merely the hallooing of some other part of the army at the wild deer that bounded away from the martial array. When, at night, they reached the banks of the Tyne, and had made their way across the ford, they found themselves in evil case, for all their baggage and provisions were far behind, stuck in the bogs, or stumbling up the mountain-sides, and they had nothing ...
— Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II • Charlotte Mary Yonge

... it to the other, vel in plantam derivare, and an Alexi-pharmacum, of which Roger Bacon of old in his Tract. de retardanda senectute, to make a man young again, live three or four hundred years. Besides panaceas, martial amulets, unguentum armarium, balsams, strange extracts, elixirs, and such like magico-magnetical cures. Now what so pleasing can there be as the speculation of these things, to read and examine such experiments, or if a man be more mathematically given, to calculate, or peruse Napier's Logarithms, ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior

... provocation received, the prisoner, who was much liked by the officers, was condemned to six months' imprisonment for his insubordination and blow to his superior officer, without being tied up to the triangles. At the court-martial, Cecil, who chanced to be in Brighton after Goodwood, was present one day with some other Guardsmen; and the look of Rake, with his cheerfulness under difficulties, his love for the hound, and his bright, sunburnt, shrewd, humorous ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]

... soldiers were again assembled, for there remained the task of arresting the leaders of the mob and bringing them to justice. The town had been placed under martial law with the arrival of the militia. Its streets were patrolled by armed guards, and a strong cordon had been thrown around the shacks which the mill hands had hastily erected the afternoon before. And now, under the ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking


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