martnett

[Cf. martinet2.] Same as mar tinet2. martret, n. martrint, n. See marterin . mart-town; town . An obsolete form of marten1 . (märt'toun), n. Same as market In the time of the Saxons, the said citie of London was a Mart - towne for many nations. Hakluyt's Voyages, To the Reader. Martynia (mär-tin'i-ä), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1737), named after John Martyn , profe or of botany at Cambridge, who died in 1768.] Agenus of dicotyledonous gamopetalous plants of the natural order Ped a line a and the tribe Marty nieæ. It is characterized by a partially bell-shaped bladder-like calyx, which is unequally 5-toothed or 5-parted, and by a corolla-tube spreading above. The fruit is a woody wrinkled capsule terminating in two long curved martyre before Domitian, and released unscathed, were always regarded as martyrs.] 2. One who willingly suffers death rather than surrender his religious faith; one who bears witne to the sincerity of his faith by submitting to death in a erting it; specifically, one of those Christians who in former times were put to death because they would not renounce their religious belief: as, Stephen was the first martyr (called the protomartyr ); the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. Undre that Chirche, at 30 Degrees of Depne e, weren entered 12000 Mar tires , in the tyme of Kyng Cosdroe, that the Lyoun mette with alle in a nyghte, be the wille of God. Mandeville , Travels, p. 94. The noble army of Martyrs praise Thee. Book of Common Prayer , Te Deum. 3. One who suffers death or grievous lo in defense or on behalf of any belief or cause, or in consequence of supporting it: as, he died a martyr to his political principles or to his devo tion to science. Who would die a Martyr to Sense in a Country where the Religion is Folly? Congreve, Love for Love, i. 2. For these humble martyrs of pa ive obedience and hereditary rights nobody has a word to say. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., xi. Hence-4. One who suffers greatly from any cause; one who is afflicted; a victim of misfortune, calamity, or disease: as, a martyr to gout, or to tight lacing.-5. [ martyr , v .] An old instrument of torture in which the victim was subjected to agonizing pre ure. Hence-6. In wine - making , a wooden box used for pre ing grapes. The use of a martyr for the purpose [pre ing] is, perhaps, most general; this is a wooden box, having a bottom formed of laths so closely set that the grapes cannot Spons ' Encyc . Manuf ., I. 435. pa between them. Acts of the Martyrs. See acta. - Era of Martyrs. See era.-The Order of the Martyrs. See Order of Sts. Cos