Word Meanings - MARSHAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

mariscalcus, from OHG. marah-scalc ; marah horse + scalc servant . F. maréchal signifies, a marshal, and a farrier. See Mare horse, and cf. 1. Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom. 2. An officer of high rank, charged with

Additional info about word: MARSHAL

mariscalcus, from OHG. marah-scalc ; marah horse + scalc servant . F. maréchal signifies, a marshal, and a farrier. See Mare horse, and cf. 1. Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom. 2. An officer of high rank, charged with the arrangement of ceremonies, the conduct of operations, or the like; as, specifically: One who goes before a prince to declare his coming and provide entertainment; a harbinger; a pursuivant. One who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other assembly, directs the order of procession, and the like. The chief officer of arms, whose duty it was, in ancient times, to regulate combats in the lists. Johnson. The highest military officer. In other countries of Europe a marshal is a military officer of high rank, and called field marshal. A ministerial officer, appointed for each judicial district of the United States, to execute the process of the courts of the United States, and perform various duties, similar to those of a sheriff. The name is also sometimes applied to certain police officers of a city. Earl marshal of England, the eighth officer of state; an honorary title, and personal, until made hereditary in the family of the Duke of Norfolk. During a vacancy in the office of high constable, the earl marshal has jurisdiction in the court of chivalry. Brande & C. -- Earl marshal of Scotland, an officer who had command of the cavalry under the constable. This office was held by the family of Keith, but forfeited by rebellion in 1715. -- Knight marshal, or Marshal of the King's house, formerly, in England, the marshal of the king's house, who was authorized to hear and determine all pleas of the Crown, to punish faults committed within the verge, etc. His court was called the Court of Marshalsea. -- Marshal of the Queen's Bench, formerly the title of the officer who had the custody of the Queen's bench prison in Southwark. Mozley

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MARSHAL)

• Array Vest
• deck
• equip
• decorate
• rank
• adorn
• dress
• accoutre
• invest
• attire
• place
• arrange
• draw up
• marshal
• set in order
• dispose
• methodize
• Shape
• order
• enucleate
• eliminate
• organize
• Muster Marshal
• collect
• assemble
• rally
• enroll
• gather

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MARSHAL)

• Compliment
• flatter
• panegyrize
• eulogize
• Pervert
• distort
• misadapt
• misdelineate
• derange
• discompose
• misconstrue
• misproduce
• caricature

Related words: (words related to MARSHAL)

• EQUIPENSATE
  To weigh equally; to esteem alike.
• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• ELIMINATE
  To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• UNATTIRE
  To divest of attire; to undress.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.