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Court-martial   /kɔrt-mˈɑrʃəl/   Listen
Court-martial

noun
1.
A military court to try members of the armed services who are accused of serious breaches of martial law.
2.
A trial that is conducted by a military court.
verb
1.
Subject to trial by court-martial.



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"Court-martial" Quotes from Famous Books



... the exception of the sentries guarding the town's perimeter, were standing in the square, watching the court-martial. Their eyes didn't seem to blink, and their breathing was soft and measured. They were ...
— Despoilers of the Golden Empire • Gordon Randall Garrett
... round is not the shortest way home, and that was why Mahommed Selim's court-martial took just three minutes and a half; and the bimbashi who judged him found even that too long, for he yawned in the deserter's face as he condemned ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... Captain. "It was proved conclusively at the court-martial to have arisen from an explosion of coal-gas—but we had better change the subject, or we may cause the ladies to have a restless night;" and the conversation once more drifted back ...
— The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle
... he have? "We solve the knot," Cries the First Lord, impartial; "If Kane had failed, he would have got Our pickle rod—court-martial." ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... quizzes! Here toddles along some old figure of fun, With a coat you might date Anno Domini 1.; A laced hat, worsted stockings, and—noble old soul! A fine ribbon and cross in his best button-hole; Just such as our PRINCE, who nor reason nor fun dreads, Inflicts, without even a court-martial, on hundreds. Here trips a grisette, with a fond, roguish eye, (Rather eatable things these grisettes, by the by); And there an old demoiselle, almost as fond, In a silk that has stood since the time of the Fronde. There goes a French Dandy—ah, DICK! unlike some ones We've seen about ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al


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