The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marshal \Mar"shal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marshaledor Marshalled; p. pr. & vb. n. Marshaling or Marshalling.]
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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.
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To direct, guide, or lead.
Thou marshalest me the way that I was going.
--Shak. (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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Usage examples of "marshaled".
When he perceived that our men were not inferior, as the place before the camp was naturally convenient and suitable for marshaling an army (since the hill where the camp was pitched, rising gradually from the plain, extended forward in breadth as far as the space which the marshaled army could occupy, and had steep declines of its side in either direction, and gently sloping in front gradually sank to the plain).
When he had arrived there, he perceives that numerous forces of the enemy were marshaled on the other bank of the river.
Caesar calling his legions off from their work, and ordering the horse to hold themselves in readiness, marshaled his army: for to appear to decline an engagement contrary to the opinion of the soldiers and the general voice, would have been attended with great disadvantage.
The horse began the battle: and before the legions could be completely marshaled and take their ground, the king's entire forces being thrown into disorder and confusion, because they had marched without any order, and were under no apprehensions, betake themselves to flight: almost all the enemy's horse being safe, because they made a speedy retreat into the town along the shore, Caesar's soldiers slay a great number of their infantry.
Sabura gave his men the signal, marshaled his army, and began to go around his ranks and encourage them.
All available personnel were marshaled to unload Singers' air sleds, not just unclassified recruits.
You heard what Shensu said, and how proud he was of the way the admiral marshaled all available defenses.
The prisoners were marshaled ashore and through a portal, into Ao Khaha.
Baojian marshaled his wagons close up under the cliff, with the gun-carts facing the steppe.
As soon as he had reloaded his drays with cases of drugs and tinctures, bales of lacy cloth, dried fruit in cakes and packs, he marshaled the wagons and set off once more to the north, preferring to pass the night on the open steppe rather than risk the caprices of the Old Chasch.
Amid some small protest and wailing, women, children, the aged and the uncooperative were marshaled aboard drays and sent off through the night, to a dismal gorge twenty miles south, where they would establish a temporary camp.
Malchion’s marshaled his army for the conquest of Selonari, and I’ve only a few days to make a defense.
About the combatants, Bloodstone’s fame pulsed ever brighter as the demon of alien science battled the forces of sorcery marshaled to defeat it.
Dimly it was aware of Kane and marshaled its tortured energies to defend itself.
Ista marshaled all the clarity of vision she could, widening her inner eye to take in all the living light that rippled in unhappy disorder around the room.