martial : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a military court to try members of the armed services who are accused of serious breaches of martial law
  
• noun a trial that is conducted by a military court
  
• verb subject to trial by court-martial
  

WordNet

Court`-mar"tial noun

Wordforms

plural Courts-martial

Definitions

1. A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.

Court`-mar"tial transitive verb

Wordforms

imperfect & past participle Court-martialed present participle & verbal noun Court-martialing

Definitions

1. To subject to trial by a court-martial.

Webster 1913

• noun a military court convened to hear urgent charges of offenses committed in action
  

WordNet

• (Mil.), a summary court-martial called to try offenses on the battlefield or the line of march, when, sometimes, a drumhead has to do service as a writing table.

Webster 1913

• (Old Chem.), black oxide of iron.

Webster 1913

• (Mil.), the highest military and naval judicial tribunal.

Webster 1913

• noun any of several Oriental arts of weaponless self-defense; usually practiced as a sport
  
  • he had a black belt in the martial arts

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• (Med.), a reddish crystalline salt of iron; the ammonio-chloride of iron. Obs.

Webster 1913

• noun the body of law imposed by the military over civilian affairs (usually in time of war or civil crisis); overrides civil law
  

WordNet

• the law administered by the military power of a government when it has superseded the civil authority in time of war, or when the civil authorities are unable to enforce the laws. It is distinguished from military law, the latter being the code of rules for the regulation of the army and navy alone, either in peace or in war.

Webster 1913

• noun brisk marching music suitable for troops marching in a military parade
  military music; military march.
  

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• noun a court-martial to try soldiers for offenses less serious that than those committed in action; consists of at least three officers
  

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