"martial : (comparable) Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike. (comparable) Connected with..."

“martial : (comparable) Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.
(comparable) Connected with or relating to armed forces or the profession of arms or military life.
(comparable) Characteristic of or befitting a warrior; having a military bearing; soldierly.
(not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mars.
(not comparable, astronomy, obsolete) Of or relating to the planet Mars; Martian.
(not comparable, chemistry, medicine, obsolete) Containing, or relating to, iron (which was symbolically associated with the planet Mars by alchemists); chalybeate, ferric, ferrous.
To mark the premiere of English composer Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite The Planets on 29 September 1918, we are featuring a series of words relating to the planets in the Solar System. One of the suite’s movements is Mars, the Bringer of War, composed 105 years ago in 1914.”

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