martials

/M AA1 R SH AH0 L Z/
adjective
  1. 1

    (comparable) Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.

  2. 2

    (comparable) Connected with or relating to armed forces or the profession of arms or military life.

  3. 3

    (comparable) Characteristic of or befitting a warrior; having a military bearing; soldierly.

  4. 4

    (not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mars.

  5. 5

    (not comparable, astronomy, obsolete) Of or relating to the planet Mars; Martian.

  6. 6

    (not comparable, chemistry, medicine, obsolete) Containing, or relating to, iron (which was symbolically associated with the planet Mars by alchemists); chalybeate, ferric, ferrous.

  7. 7

    (astronomy, obsolete) Alternative letter-case form of martial (“of or relating to the planet Mars”). [(comparable) Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.]

  8. 8

    (chemistry, medicine, obsolete) Alternative letter-case form of Containing, or relating to, iron

noun
  1. 1

    (obsolete) A soldier, a warrior.

  2. 2

    (astrology, obsolete) A celestial object under the astrological influence of the planet Mars.

  3. 3

    (chiefly science fiction, obsolete) Synonym of Martian (“inhabitant of the planet Mars”).

  4. 4

    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.

  5. 5

    A male given name from Latin, narrowly applied to certain historic persons (but some of its foreign cognates are modern given names).

  6. 6

    (chiefly science fiction, obsolete) Alternative letter-case form of martial (“inhabitant of the planet Mars; Martian”). [(obsolete) A soldier, a warrior.]