Martial vs Nonmartial - What's the difference?

As a proper noun martial

is narrowly applied to certain historic persons (but some of its foreign cognates are modern given names).

not martial.

(en adjective)

Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.

* Dryden

But peaceful kings, o'er martial people set, / Each other's poise and counterbalance are.

Relating to or connected with the armed forces or the profession of arms or military life.

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

(medicine, chemistry, obsolete) Relating to, or containing, iron; chalybeate.

martial preparations

martial flowers: a reddish crystalline salt of iron

* court martial * martial art * martialism * martialness * martialist * martial law * martially

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Not martial.