martial
see also: Martial
Pronunciation Adjective
Martial
Pronunciation Proper noun
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see also: Martial
Pronunciation Adjective
martial
- (comparable) Of, relating to, or suggestive of war#Noun|war; warlike.
- 1576, George Whetstone, “The Ortchard of Repentance: […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, Diuided into Foure Parts. [...], Imprinted at London: [By H. Middleton] for Robert Waley, OCLC 837515946 ↗; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The Rocke of Regard, Diuided into Foure Parts. [...] (Illustrations of Early English Poetry; vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed, [1867?], OCLC 706027473 ↗, page 216 ↗:
- The captaine he, which climbes for high advaunce, / By piercing blade imbrude in enimies blood, / In martiall ſhewes who formoſt leades the daunce, [...]
- 1668, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, M. DC. LXVI. […], London: Printed for Henry Herringman, […], OCLC 1064438096 ↗, stanza 12, page 4 ↗:
- But peaceful Kings, o'r martial people ſet, / Each others poize and counter-ballance are.
- (comparable) Connected with or relating to armed forces or the profession of arm#Noun|arms or military#Adjective|military life.
- (comparable) Characteristic of or befitting a warrior; having a military bearing#Noun|bearing; soldierly.
- Synonyms: soldierlike, warriorlike
- c. 1599–1602, William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: Printed [by Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, OCLC 84758312 ↗, [Act I, scene i] ↗:
- With Marſhall ſtalke he paſſed through our watch.
- 1701 January (indicated as 1700), [Daniel Defoe], The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, [London: s.n.], OCLC 606597370 ↗, part II, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924013179399;view=1up;seq=75 page 58]:
- His Martial Valour Flanders will confeſs; / And France Regrets his Managing the Peace. / Faithful to England’s Intereſt and her King: / The greateſt Reaſon of our Murmuring.
- (not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence#Noun|influence of the planet Mars.
- (not comparable, astronomy, obsolete) Of or relating to the planet Mars; Martian#Adjective|Martian.
- [1611?], Homer, “Book IV”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: Printed for Nathaniell Butter, OCLC 614803194 ↗; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […] In Two Volumes, volume I, new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, OCLC 987451361 ↗, page 117 ↗:
- [R]ound about the plain / All hid with slaughter'd carcasses, yet still did hotly reign / The martial planet; [...]
- (not comparable, chemistry, medicine, obsolete) Containing, or relating to, iron#Noun|iron (which was symbolically associated with the planet Mars by alchemists); chalybeate, ferric, ferrous.
- martial preparations martial flowers (a reddish crystalline salt of iron)
- French: martial
- German: kriegerisch, martialisch, kampflustig
- Italian: marziale
- Portuguese: marcial, bélico
- Russian: вое́нный
- Spanish: marcial
- French: martial
- German: soldatisch, militärisch
- Portuguese: marcial
- French: martial
- German: kriegerisch, soldatisch
- Portuguese: marcial, soldadesco
- Spanish: marcial, soldadesco, castrense
martial (plural martials)
- (obsolete) A soldier#Noun|soldier, a warrior.
- (astrology, obsolete) A celestial object under the astrological influence#Noun|influence of the planet Mars.
- (chiefly, science fiction, obsolete) Synonym of Martian#English|Martian (“inhabitant of the planet Mars”)
Martial
Pronunciation Proper noun
- A male given name, narrowly applied to certain historic persons (but some of its foreign cognates are modern given names).
- Saint Martial was the first bishop of Limoges, circa 250
- An Anglicized cognomen or given name of the Roman poet Marcus Valerius Martialis, born in Spain in the first century AD and noted for his epigrams.
- German: Martial
- Portuguese: Marcial
- Russian: Марциа́л
martial (not comparable)
Nounmartial (plural martials)
- (chiefly, science fiction, obsolete) Alternative letter-case form of martial (“inhabitant of the planet Mars; Martian”)
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