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Marshal   /mˈɑrʃəl/   Listen
noun
Marshal  n.  
1.
Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom. (Obs.)
2.
An officer of high rank, charged with the arrangement of ceremonies, the conduct of operations, or the like; as, specifically:
(a)
One who goes before a prince to declare his coming and provide entertainment; a harbinger; a pursuivant.
(b)
One who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other assembly, directs the order of procession, and the like.
(c)
The chief officer of arms, whose duty it was, in ancient times, to regulate combats in the lists.
(d)
(France) The highest military officer. In other countries of Europe a marshal is a military officer of high rank, and called field marshal.
(e)
(Am. Law) 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.
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.


verb
Marshal  v. t.  (past & past part. marshaled or marshalled; pres. part. marshaling or marshalling)  
1.
To dispose in order; to arrange in a suitable manner; as, to marshal troops or an army. "And marshaling the heroes of his name As, in their order, next to light they came."
2.
To direct, guide, or lead. "Thou marshalest me the way that I was going."
3.
(Her.) To dispose in due order, as the different quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when several belong to an achievement.





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... Worcester, William bishop of Coventry, Benedict bishop of Rochester, Master Pandulf subdeacon and member of the papal household, Brother Aymeric master of the knighthood of the Temple in England, William Marshal earl of Pembroke, William earl of Salisbury, William earl of Warren, William earl of Arundel, Alan de Galloway constable of Scotland, Warin Fitz Gerald, Peter Fitz Herbert, Hubert de Burgh seneschal of Poitou, Hugh de Neville, Matthew Fitz Herbert, Thomas Basset, Alan Basset, ...
— The Magna Carta
... the various departments just mentioned. One member of the Chicago Order, as appeared in evidence before the military commission, traveled over the North wherever he desired, on the pass of a Provost Marshal in Indiana, his business being to aid in the organization of Temples in the different sections of the West. So rapidly did they increase in numbers, that Judge Morris estimated the number in ...
— The Great North-Western Conspiracy In All Its Startling Details • I. Windslow Ayer
... worse than his neighbours; but he is not going to say, in '54, that Wellington was a noble-hearted fellow; for he believes that a more cold-hearted individual never existed. His conduct to Warner, the poor Vaudois, and Marshal Ney, showed that. He said, in '32, that he was a good general and a brave man; but he is not going, in '54, to say that he was the best general, or the bravest man the world ever saw. England has produced a better general—France two or three—both countries many braver ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow
... report of victory, remained in Bayonne. Divisions of the French army moved in all directions against the insurgents. Dupont was ordered to march upon Seville from the capital, Moncey upon Valencia; Marshal Bessieres took command of a force intended to disperse the main army of the Spaniards, which threatened the roads from the Pyrenees to Madrid. The first encounters were all favourable to the practised French troops; yet the objects which Napoleon set before his generals were ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe
... care, when he found that the Imperialists had retreated in the direction of Colberg, was to send out some horsemen to discover whether the Swedes were in a position to cover that town. The men returned in two hours with the report that Field Marshal Horn, with the Swedish troops from Stettin, had joined Kniphausen and Hepburn, and were guarding the passage between the ...
— The Lion of the North • G.A. Henty


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