Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A warrior or soldier; a military man.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A warrior.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun   A warrior .
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Examples
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								I bear tales, and that against my brother martialist? 
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								“But, gossip — good gossip,” answered the martialist with out, “I am beset with villains, and beg the shelter of your roof!” 
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								Consider, good neighbour, thou art too old for a young martialist to wrangle with. 
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								Sussex was, according to the phrase of the times, a martialist — had done good service in Ireland and in Kenilworth 2004 
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								On the north side of the steps leading up to the choir is a brass tablet on a pillar, recording the merits of the "renowned martialist," Colonel Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Philip Walsingham Sergeant 1912 
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								Nestor advises Agamemnon to set an advanced guard, which that martialist had never thought of doing, and to discuss matters over supper. Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878 
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								Saying this the self-satisfied martialist opened the basket and solaced his appetite with a slice of pasty and a draught of wine. 
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								Henry's horse also had all the furniture necessary to a campaign; and the young martialist himself, notwithstanding his sister's disapproval, was begirt with a sword-belt, from which depended a light sabre, with which he was in the habit of exhibiting himself in the corps of the Rangers. 
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								Even our young martialist, Henry, had become so inured to the toils of the road, that now, with the aid of a sleep which Horse Shoe had affectionately guarded until the last moment -- to say nothing of a good luncheon of broiled venison, which the boy discussed after he had mounted into his saddle -- he might be considered the most light-hearted of the host. 
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								Butler laughed, and applauded the young martialist for his discrimination. 
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