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martial
CIDE DICTIONARY
martial, a. [F., fr. L. martialis of or belonging to Mars, the god of war. Cf. March the month.].
- Of, pertaining to, or suited for, war; military; as, martial music; a martial appearance. Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Practiced in, or inclined to, war; warlike; brave. [1913 Webster]"But peaceful kings, o'er martial people set,
Each other's poise and counterbalance are." [1913 Webster] - Belonging to war, or to an army and navy; -- opposed to
civil ; as, martial law; a court-martial. [1913 Webster] - Pertaining to, or resembling, the god, or the planet, Mars. Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- Pertaining to, or containing, iron; chalybeate; as, martial preparations. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
martial, adj.
1 of or appropriate to warfare.
2 warlike, brave; fond of fighting.
1 of or appropriate to warfare.
2 warlike, brave; fond of fighting.
Idiom
martial arts fighting sports such as judo and karate. martial law military government, involving the suspension of ordinary law.
Derivative
martially adv.
Etymology
ME f. OF martial or L martialis of the Roman god Mars: see MARS
THESAURUS
martial
aggressive, antagonistic, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brave, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, contentious, courageous, enemy, ferocious, fierce, fighting, full of fight, hawkish, high-spirited, hostile, inimical, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, mettlesome, militant, militaristic, military, offensive, pugnacious, quarrelsome, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, soldierlike, soldierly, spirited, stalwart, staunch, trigger-happy, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, valiant, valorous, warlike, warmongering, warringROGET THESAURUS
martial
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.For further exploring for "martial" in Webster Dictionary Online