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mar·tial (mär′s̸həl)
adjective
- of or suitable for war martial songs
- showing a readiness or eagerness to fight; warlike
- of the army, the navy, or military life; military
Etymology: ME martialle < L martialis, of Mars
Related Forms:
- martialism mar′·tial·ism′ noun
- martialist mar′·tial·ist noun
- martially mar′·tially adverb
Mar·tial (mär′s̸həl)
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Modifying Another Word
- not: This is not martial law, only another path toward democracy.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- face: Many soldiers facing courts martial have to wait up to a year to be tried.
Modifies a noun
- art: By learning a martial art for self defense, you are still training to win the upper hand in a physical contest.
Used with adjective complement
- court: Do you offer legal ( or courts martial ) advice?
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Neither will it be, that a people overlaid with taxes should ever become valiant and martial.
In enterprise of martial kind, When there was any fighting, He led his regiment from behindö He found it less exciting. But when away his regiment ran, His place was at the fore,Oö That celebrated, Cultivated Underrated Nobleman, The Duke of Plaza-Toro!
The Frenchhad a moremartial air thanthe English.There seemed to be a species of military instinct in all classes. No young man appeared to have finished his education till after a bloody campaign They were at this singular period, without the least exaggeration, a century behind us in notions of legal and moral responsibility.
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