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military

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36 in 36 verses (in OT : 33 in 33 verses) (in NT : 3 in 3 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

militarya. [L. militaris, militarius, from miles, militis, soldier: cf. F. militaire.].
  •  Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown.  [1913 Webster]
    "Nor do I, as an enemy to peace,
    Troop in the throngs of military men.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]
Military law. See Martial law, under Martial. -- Military order. (a) A command proceeding from a military superior. (b) An association of military persons under a bond of certain peculiar rules; especially, such an association of knights in the Middle Ages, or a body in modern times taking a similar form, membership of which confers some distinction. -- Military tenure, tenure of land, on condition of performing military service.
militaryn. [Cf. F. militaire.].
     The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

military, adj. & n.
--adj. of, relating to, or characteristic of soldiers or armed forces.
--n. (as sing. or pl.; prec. by the) members of the armed forces, as distinct from civilians and the police.

Idiom
military honours marks of respect paid by troops at the burial of a soldier, to royalty, etc. military police a corps responsible for police and disciplinary duties in the army. military policeman a member of the military police.
Derivative
militarily adv. militariness n.
Etymology
F militaire or L militaris f. miles militis soldier

THESAURUS

military

aggressive, air force, antagonistic, armed force, armed forces, armed service, army, array, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, career soldiers, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, contentious, enemy, ferocious, fierce, fighting, fighting machine, forces, full of fight, ground forces, ground troops, hawkish, host, hostile, inimical, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, legions, martial, militant, militaristic, military establishment, naval, navy, occupation force, offensive, paratroops, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rank and file, ranks, regular army, regulars, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, service, ski troops, soldierlike, soldierly, soldiery, standing army, storm troops, the line, the military, trigger-happy, troops, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, warlike, warmongering, warring

ROGET THESAURUS

military

Warfare

N warfare, fighting, hostilities, war, arms, the sword, Mars, Bellona, grim visaged war, horrida bella, bloodshed, appeal to arms, appeal to the sword, ordeal of battle, wager of battle, ultima ratio regum, arbitrament of the sword, battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition, operations, mobilization, state of siege, battlefield, theater of operations, warpath, art of war, tactics, strategy, castrametation, generalship, soldiership, logistics, military evolutions, ballistics, gunnery, chivalry, gunpowder, shot, battle, tug of war, service, campaigning, active service, tented field, kriegspiel, Kriegsspiel, fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch, slogan, war-cry, war-whoop, battle cry, beat of drum, rappel, tom-tom, calumet of war, word of command, password, watchword, passage d-armes, war to the death, war to the knife, guerre a mort, guerre a outrance, open war, internecine war, civil war, contending, contentious, armed, armed to the teeth, armed cap-a-pie, sword in hand, in arms, under arms, up in arms, at war with, bristling with arms, in battle array, in open arms, in the field, embattled, battled, unpacific, unpeaceful, belligerent, combative, armigerous, bellicose, martial, warlike, military, militant, soldier-like, soldierly, chivalrous, strategical, internecine, flagrante bello, in the thick of the fray, in the cannon's mouth, at the sword's point, at the point of the bayonet, Int, vae victis!, to arms!, to your tents O Israel!, the battle rages, a la guerre comme a la guerre, bis peccare in bello non licet, jus gladii, my voice is still for war, 'tis well that war is so terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it, my sentence is for open war, pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war, the cannons have their bowels full of wrath, the cannons aspit forth their iron indignation, the fire-eyed maid of smoky war, silent leges inter arma, si vis pacem para bellum.


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