militarism (militarizm)

[F. militar is me = Sp. militarismo; as militar, militar - y, + -ism.] The military spirit; addiction to war or military practices; the maintenance of national power by means of standing armies. The principles of Port Royal found some supporters... before monarchism and militarism had crushed the life out of the nation. Encyc. Brit ., VII. 675. Monarchy, aristocracy, militarism we could not have if we would, we would not have if we could. 3761 to be observed in the management of an army when it is to march, to engage an enemy, or to be encamped. (b) Tech nical, including the composition, fabrication, and application of warlike machines, and the practice of military engineering in the erection of offensive and defensive works for the protection of an army, a city, or a country. This branch also comprises the topographical surveys, the building of pontoon and other bridges, the projection and construction of roads, telegraph-lines, railroads, etc., nece ary to the operations of an army in the field. - Military band. See band 3. - Military ceremonies. See Da Military com mi i one conies Military courts, the courts of chivalry and courts martial. - Military drum, the side-drum or snare-drum. - Military engineering, fever, etc. See the nouns. - Military feuds. See feud2.-Military Knight of Windsor. Same as Windsor Knight (which see, under knight ). - Military law, the body of rules and ordinances prescribed by competent authority for the government of the military state, considered as a distinct community. ( Bishop.) Military law in the United States consists of the Rules and Articles of War, and other statutory provisions for the government of persons subject to military control, to which may be added the unwritten or common law derived from the usage and custom of military service. See lawl, and mar- ar tial law (under martial ). - Military mast. See mast1.Military music, martial music, suitable for a military use in connection with military - Military offenses, offenses which are cognizable by a court martial.-Military system, the rules, regulations, forms, etc., prescribed for the organization and administration of an army in the field or in garrison or camp.Military tenure, a tenure of land on condition of performing military service. --Military testament, in Rom. law, a nuncupative will, by which a soldier might dispose law requires in other cases. - Statute of military tenures, an English statute of 1660, which abolished knights' service and some of the abuses and exactions of military tenures. Syn. Warlike, etc. See martial. of his goods without the forms and solemnities which the II. n. Soldiers generally; soldiery; officers of the army: commonly with the definite article: as, the occasion was enlivened by the presence of the military. My lord going to the "Trumpet," in the Cockpit, White hall, an house used by the military in his time as a young man. Thackeray, Henry Esmond, i. 14.