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To move or lead (a group of people) in a careful way, e.g., a teacher marshaling students To arrange (a group of people, such as soldiers) in an orderly way, e.g., marshalling troops/forces Marshals don't always marshal, but when you want a verb, it's marshal and not martial you're after. There are also (British) field marshals and the maybe-sitting-next-to-you-on-that-airplane sky or air marshals. The head of a division of a police or fire departmentĪ person who arranges and directs ceremonies or parades

MARTIAL LAW COMING FULL

(See the full definition for deets.) In modern English, a marshal is usually one of the following:Īn officer of the highest rank in one of the military forcesĪn administrative officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff Some of these marshals are long dead, since we're no longer in medieval times. Marshal as a NounĪs a noun, marshal always refers to a person who has some particular set of official responsibilities. It's a noun and a verb, and not an adjective. The two l's usually get used for proper nouns, like names and places-and stores-but both common noun and verb uses of marshal are sometimes spelled marshall, especially in British English.)īut back to marshal: the word also differs from martial grammatically. ( Marshall is, by the way, a long-established spelling variant of marshal. Marshal is a different word entirely, despite the fact that it sounds exactly the same as martial and that it also wanders into military-related semantic territory. All of those gods were known to behave pretty badly from time to time. We have no idea how Mars would have fared in a court-martial, which is a military court or trial. His reputation as a fierce fighter connects nicely with our modern term martial arts, which refers to skills of combat and self-defense.

Mars was the god of war and one of the patron gods of Rome itself. Martial comes from the Latin martialis, meaning 'of Mars'-Mars in this case being not the planet but the Roman god for whom the planet was named. The law administered by military forces that is invoked by a government in an emergency when the civilian law enforcement agencies are unable to maintain public order and safety Origin of 'Martial' The law applied in occupied territory by the military authority of the occupying power Martial is also paired with the word law in the term martial law, which refers to two particular kinds of law applied or administered by a military: People experienced in or inclined to war, e.g., a martial people Martial Law Things relating to an army or to military life, e.g., martial discipline Things related to or suited for war or a warrior, e.g., martial prowess, martial rhetoric

Martial is only ever an adjective, and it's all about war. And we won't even make you wait until high noon.

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