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Marshal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The chief officer of arms, whose duty it is to regulate combats in the lists.

2. One who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other assembly, directs the order of procession and the like.

3. A harbinger; a pursuivant; one who goes before a prince to declare his coming and provide entertainment.

4. In France, the highest military officer. In other countries of Europe, a marshal is a military officer of high rank, and called field-marshal.

5. In America, a civil officer, appointed by the President and Senate of the United States, in each judicial district, answering to the sheriff of a county. His duty is to execute all precepts directed to him, issued under the authority of the United States.

6. An officer of any private society, appointed to regulate their ceremonies and execute their orders.

7. Earl marshal of England, the eighth officer of state; an honorary title, and personal, until made hereditary by Charles II, in the family of Howard. During a vacancy in the office of high constable, the earl marshal has jurisdiction in the court of chivalry.

8. Earl marshal of Scotland. This officer formerly had command of the cavalry, under the constable. This office was held by the family of Keith, but forfeited by rebellion in 1715.

9. Knight marshal or marshal of the king's house, formerly an officer who was to execute the commands of the lord steward, and have the custody of prisoners committed by the court of verge; hence, the name of a prison in Southwark.

10. Marshal of the king's bench, an officer who has the custody of the prison called the king's bench, in Southwark. He attends on the court and has the charge of the prisoners committed by them.

Marshal [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To dispose in order; to arrange in a suitable manner; as, to marshal an army; to marshal troops.

2. To lead, as a harbinger. [Not used.]

3. To dispose in due order the several parts of an escutcheon, or the coats of arms of distinct families.

Marshal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

3. One who goes before a prince to declare his coming and provide entertainment; a harbinger; a pursuivant.

4. One who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other assembly, directs the order of procession, and the like.

5. The chief officer of arms, whose duty it was, in ancient times, to regulate combats in the lists.

6. The highest military officer.

7. 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.

Marshal [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To dispose in order; to arrange in a suitable manner; as, to marshal troops or an army.

2. To direct, guide, or lead.

3. To dispose in due order, as the different quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when several belong to an achievement.

Marshal Encyclopedia Britannica

MARSHAL (from Old High German maralι, horse, and scale, care-taker), in its original signification a servant of the royal manege^ was afterwards a title given in different countries to the holder of various high offices, military and civil. In the time of Philip Augustus the commander of the French forces was called the marshal of France. Under Francis I. the marshals of France became two in number, under Henry III. four, and in the time of Louis XIV. their number was raised to twenty. In England the marshal was a high officer of state as far back as the 12th century. In the end of the 12th and first half of the 13th century the office was conferred on the earls of Pembroke, from whom it passed by female descent to the family of Bigod, earl of Norfolk. The dignity of earlmarshal was afterwards held successively by the Mowbrays, dukes of Norfolk, the Howards, dukes of Norfolk, and the earls of Arundel and Norwich. Under a grant by Charles II. to.Henry Howard, earl of Norwich, it has descended to and continues in the line of the existing dukes of Norfolk. The marshal was in feudal times (in conjunction with the constable, a still higher officer) the judge in the court of chivalry, which had cognizance of questions of honour and dignity; and, when the king headed his army in person, it was the marshal who selected the proper spot for the encampment of each noble. The constable’s powers and duties were superseded in the reign of Henry VIII.; but the earl-marshal is still the head of the Heralds’ College, and appoints the officers of arms. In Scotland (an orthography resembling the French maréchal being adopted) the office of marischal, probably introduced under David I., became from the 14th century hereditary in the family of Keith. The Scottish marischal became an ...

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Marshaled [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Arranged in due order.

Marshaled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Marshaler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who disposes in due order.

Marshaler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who marshals.

Marshaling [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Arranging in due order.

Marshaling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of arranging in due order.

2. The arrangement of an escutcheon to exhibit the alliances of the owner.

Marshaling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Marshall Encyclopedia Britannica

MARSHALL, John (1755-1835), chief justice of the United States, was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, on September 24, 1755. As lieutenant and captain he served in the revolutionary army from 1775 to 1780. In 1781 he began the practice of the law, and two years later removed to Richmond. At various times from 1782 to 1798 he was elected a member of the Virginia legislature, in 1788 a member of the Virginia convention for the ratification of the constitution; in 1797 he was envoy-extraordinary to France, and in 1799 a member of Congress; in 1800he became secretary of state; and on January 31, 1801, he was appointed to the chief justiceship, which position he held until his death on the 6th of July 1835. Marshall as a lawyer soon rose to the first rank at the Virginia bar, and acquired also a national reputation. In the Virginia convention of 1788 his influence was second only to that of Madison in securing the adoption of the constitution. But, unlike Madison, he continued, under the constitution, to support the administration of Washington and Federalist measures in general. It was as chief justice of the supreme court of the United States, however, that Marshall won lasting fame. His reports, filling about thirty volumes, form a work which time will only render more valued. In the expounding of public law, whether international or State law, his talents found their freest scope. In these departments of jurisprudence general principles rather than authority must be sought by the judge, and in their application Marshall has had no equal upon the American bench. It is the peculiar function of the supreme court of the United States to interpret the constitution and to guard it from the encroachments of both national and State legislation. To this duty Marshall brought his ...

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Marshall islands Encyclopedia Britannica

MARSHALL ISLANDS. ‘ See Micronesia.

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Marshalltown Encyclopedia Britannica

MARSHALLTOWN, the county seat of Marshall County, Iowa, United States, is situated on the Iowa river at the junction of several railways, and in the midst of a grain and stock producing region. Among its numerous industries are sugar-refining, waggon-making, and the manufacture of.barbed steel wire for fencing purposes. The population was 3218 in 1870 and 6240 in 1880, and has since increased rapidly.

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Marshalsea [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In England, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household.

2. Court of marshalsea a court formerly held before the steward and marshal of the king's house, to administer justice between the king's domestic servants.

Marshalsea [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household.

Marshalship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The office of a marshal.

Marshalship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The office of a marshal.