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MARTIAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Roman poet noted for epigrams (first century BC)
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to the armed forces
Example:
martial law
Classified under:
Similar:
military (associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of persons) befitting a warrior
Example:
a military bearing
Synonyms:
martial; soldierlike; soldierly; warriorlike
Classified under:
Similar:
military (characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Suggesting war or military life
Synonyms:
martial; warlike
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
military (characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military)
Context examples:
A yell of exultation, and a forest of waving steel through the length and breadth of their column, announced that they could at last see their entrapped enemies, while the swelling notes of a hundred bugles and drums, mixed with the clash of Moorish cymbals, broke forth into a proud peal of martial triumph.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
True that his gentle and thoughtful nature recoiled from the grim work of war, yet in those days of martial orders and militant brotherhoods there was no gulf fixed betwixt the priest and the soldier.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The young squire was leaning forward, gazing at the stirring and martial scene, when he heard a short, quick gasp at his shoulder, and there was the Lady Maude, with her hand to her heart, leaning up against the wall, slender and fair, like a half-plucked lily.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Twenty men-at-arms, too, well mounted and equipped, formed the cavalry of the party, while young Peter Terlake of Fareham, and Walter Ford of Botley, the martial sons of martial sires, came at their own cost to wait upon Sir Nigel and to share with Alleyne Edricson the duties of his squireship.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The old soldiers of Crecy, of Nogent, and of Poictiers were glad to think that they might hear the war-trumpet once more, and gladder still were the hot youth who had chafed for years under the martial tales of their sires.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
