Martianadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈmɑːʃn/, U.S.

/ˈmɑrʃən/

Forms: Middle English Marcien, Middle English Marcyan, Middle English Mercyen, Middle English marcient (transmission error), Middle English 1600s Marcian, 1500s– Martian. Now also with lower-case initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Mārtius , -an suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin Mārtius of or belonging to Mars (see March n.²) + -an suffix; compare -ian suffix. Compare Middle French, French martien under the influence of the planet Mars (1514), of the month of March (1555), inhabitant of the planet Mars (1913). Compare Mavortian adj.Quots. 1596 at sense A. 1b, 1605 at sense A. 1b, 1605 at sense A. 1b may use the phrase Martian field after classical Latin campus Mārtius , an open space outside Rome used for drilling soldiers and other purposes (compare camp n.² 10, Mars n.¹ 1a); however, this is not used in classical Latin in the generalized sense of the English quots.

A. adj.

a. Astrology. Of, relating to, or subject to the (supposed) influence of the planet Mars; relating to or exhibiting combative, aggressive, or masculine qualities associated astrologically or symbolically with the planet Mars.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > superior planet > [adjective] > Mars > influence

Martianc1395

martial1621

c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 610 I am al Venerien In feelyng, and myn herte is Marcien [v.rr. Marcian, marcient, Mercyen].

1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations 256 Man's Martian aggression against himself.

1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations 256 The Martian forces of overpopulation and erosion.

1964 L. MacNeice Astrol. ii. 57 The pure English type, the ‘John Bull’, was according to Papus essentially Martian...Nelson..was born with Mars rising in the second Martian sign of Scorpio.

1987 N. Campion Pract. Astrologer (1993) ii. 15/1 A person who fails to recognize his or her own aggressive Martian instincts may become the victim of violence.

1994 Kindred Spirit (Devon, U.K.) Autumn 46/1 I'm not really spacey about it, I'm very here and now, but it helps me to understand the Martian nature in me that wants to fight.

†b. Of or relating to war or battle; military. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > war > [adjective]

martiala1425

Martian1449

warly1457

martiable?a1475

warlike1560

polemical1640

stratiotic1656

J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 1004 (MED) The laure off marcyan vyctory Youyn was to Amoryus.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. v. sig. E2^v The iudges..Into the Martian field adowne descended.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 204 The Beasts that fill'd the Martian Field With bloud and slaughter.

1611 B. Jonson Catiline iv. sig. L3^v He is a spirit Of the right Martian breed.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 398 What groans of Men shall fill the Martian Field!

†2. Of or relating to the month of March. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > specific months > [adjective]

martialc1500

freeze-pot1557

sextile1560

Martian1623

sextilian1623

Aprilian1639

Septembrian1800

Septemberish1851

Aprilesque1856

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Marcian-moneth, the moneth of March.

1842 T. B. Macaulay Battle Lake Regillus in Lays Anc. Rome 96 Gay are the Martian Kalends.

a. Of or relating to the planet Mars or its (imagined) inhabitants.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > superior planet > [adjective] > Mars

martial1784

Martian1873

1873 Cornhill Mag. July 98 We may fairly assume that the Martian atmosphere extends to a height of at least 100 miles from the planet's surface.

1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life 160 The duration of such phenomena on Mars being reckoned in Martian months equivalent to one-twelfth of a Martian year.

1898 H. G. Wells War of Worlds ii. ii. 210 Long before the Martian invasion.

1926 H. C. Macpherson Mod. Astron. iv. 64 Dr. Wright..concluded that the Martian atmosphere was at least 120 miles in depth.

1956 C. D. Simak Time & Again ix. 42 Earth news..was followed by Martian news.

1972 Jrnl. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 82 455 The most interesting photographs transmitted before the clearance of the dust were of the Martian satellites Phobos and Deimos.

1993 Icarus 106 354/2 Our results display only a weak correlation between depth and diameter for large martian impact craters and basins.

b. In extended use: very strange or grotesque; distanced from or unfamiliar with what is generally considered to be normal; alien, unearthly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adjective] > strange

uncouthc900

unketha1275

solein1390

foreigna1393

uncoc1410

unquod1542

estrange1549

strangy1558

estrangeful1613

unco-like1636

arabesque1847

other-dimensional1934

Martian1953

weirded out1973

1953 News Chron. 2 June 1/1 Step by step, in Martian clothing, the two figures move forward, pursuing their race against time and the mountain in the slowest of slow motion.

1985 O. Sacks Man who mistook Wife i. 11 He was very unclear as to what was going on... His comments on the scene were positively Martian.

B. n.

a. Science Fiction. An (imagined) inhabitant of Mars.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > superior planet > [noun] > Mars > inhabitant of

Martian1869

1869 J. L. Motley Hist. Progress & Amer. Democracy: Addr. 1868 36 In popular periodicals and lectures of to-day you may learn much of the bays, rivers, inlets, oceans, and continents of the planet Mars... I know not whether the Martians have accepted the nomenclature of Dawes Continent, Table-Leg Bay, and the other designations laid down on their planet by the spirited geographers of ours.

1883 W. S. Lach-Szyrma Aleriel iii. iii. 109 He..brought with him another Martian, differently attired.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Aug. 2/1 Can it be..that the Martians..are endeavouring to signal to some other planet?

1898 H. G. Wells War of Worlds i. v. 31 The glimpse I had had of the Martians emerging from the cylinder in which they had come to the earth from their planet.

1901 G. B. Shaw Three Plays for Puritans Pref. p. xvii He feels concerned about the..destruction of the human race by the Martians.

1951 R. Bradbury Silver Locusts 108 From the back of the machine a Martian with melted gold for eyes looked down at Tomás.

1993 A. C. Clarke Hammer of God 64 Martians were fond of saying that it [sc. Olympus Mons] was three times the height of any mountain on Earth.

b. In extended use: a person likened to an inhabitant of Mars, esp. because of strange, unconventional, or eccentric appearance or behaviour, or apparent unfamiliarity with what is generally considered to be normal.

ΚΠ

1967 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary (1970) 519 What will I remember about Camp David? The two ‘Martians’ in their silver suits..fire~fighters on hand for any emergency.

1992 A. Maupin Maybe the Moon iv. 57 I could sit on a beer crate in a gay bar and amuse myself for hours, drinking and laughing and doing 'Ludes, and never once feel like a Martian.

2. A person exhibiting the combative, aggressive, or masculine qualities associated astrologically or symbolically with the planet Mars. rare.

ΚΠ

1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations 239 Man is his own Martian, at war against himself.

1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations 241 The crusade against the Martian in our midst.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	martian
释义	Martianadj.n. Brit. /ˈmɑːʃn/, U.S. /ˈmɑrʃən/ Forms: Middle English Marcien, Middle English Marcyan, Middle English Mercyen, Middle English marcient (transmission error), Middle English 1600s Marcian, 1500s– Martian. Now also with lower-case initial. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Mārtius , -an suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin Mārtius of or belonging to Mars (see March n.²) + -an suffix; compare -ian suffix. Compare Middle French, French martien under the influence of the planet Mars (1514), of the month of March (1555), inhabitant of the planet Mars (1913). Compare Mavortian adj.Quots. 1596 at sense A. 1b, 1605 at sense A. 1b, 1605 at sense A. 1b may use the phrase Martian field after classical Latin campus Mārtius , an open space outside Rome used for drilling soldiers and other purposes (compare camp n.² 10, Mars n.¹ 1a); however, this is not used in classical Latin in the generalized sense of the English quots. A. adj. 1. a. Astrology. Of, relating to, or subject to the (supposed) influence of the planet Mars; relating to or exhibiting combative, aggressive, or masculine qualities associated astrologically or symbolically with the planet Mars. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > superior planet > [adjective] > Mars > influence Martianc1395 martial1621 c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 610 I am al Venerien In feelyng, and myn herte is Marcien [v.rr. Marcian, marcient, Mercyen]. 1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations 256 Man's Martian aggression against himself. 1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations 256 The Martian forces of overpopulation and erosion. 1964 L. MacNeice Astrol. ii. 57 The pure English type, the ‘John Bull’, was according to Papus essentially Martian...Nelson..was born with Mars rising in the second Martian sign of Scorpio. 1987 N. Campion Pract. Astrologer (1993) ii. 15/1 A person who fails to recognize his or her own aggressive Martian instincts may become the victim of violence. 1994 Kindred Spirit (Devon, U.K.) Autumn 46/1 I'm not really spacey about it, I'm very here and now, but it helps me to understand the Martian nature in me that wants to fight. †b. Of or relating to war or battle; military. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > [adjective] martiala1425 Martian1449 warly1457 martiable?a1475 warlike1560 polemical1640 stratiotic1656 J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 1004 (MED) The laure off marcyan vyctory Youyn was to Amoryus. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. v. sig. E2^v The iudges..Into the Martian field adowne descended. View more context for this quotation 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 204 The Beasts that fill'd the Martian Field With bloud and slaughter. 1611 B. Jonson Catiline iv. sig. L3^v He is a spirit Of the right Martian breed. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 398 What groans of Men shall fill the Martian Field! †2. Of or relating to the month of March. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > specific months > [adjective] martialc1500 freeze-pot1557 sextile1560 Martian1623 sextilian1623 Aprilian1639 Septembrian1800 Septemberish1851 Aprilesque1856 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Marcian-moneth, the moneth of March. 1842 T. B. Macaulay Battle Lake Regillus in Lays Anc. Rome 96 Gay are the Martian Kalends. 3. a. Of or relating to the planet Mars or its (imagined) inhabitants. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > superior planet > [adjective] > Mars martial1784 Martian1873 1873 Cornhill Mag. July 98 We may fairly assume that the Martian atmosphere extends to a height of at least 100 miles from the planet's surface. 1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life 160 The duration of such phenomena on Mars being reckoned in Martian months equivalent to one-twelfth of a Martian year. 1898 H. G. Wells War of Worlds ii. ii. 210 Long before the Martian invasion. 1926 H. C. Macpherson Mod. Astron. iv. 64 Dr. Wright..concluded that the Martian atmosphere was at least 120 miles in depth. 1956 C. D. Simak Time & Again ix. 42 Earth news..was followed by Martian news. 1972 Jrnl. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 82 455 The most interesting photographs transmitted before the clearance of the dust were of the Martian satellites Phobos and Deimos. 1993 Icarus 106 354/2 Our results display only a weak correlation between depth and diameter for large martian impact craters and basins. b. In extended use: very strange or grotesque; distanced from or unfamiliar with what is generally considered to be normal; alien, unearthly. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adjective] > strange uncouthc900 unketha1275 solein1390 foreigna1393 uncoc1410 unquod1542 estrange1549 strangy1558 estrangeful1613 unco-like1636 arabesque1847 other-dimensional1934 Martian1953 weirded out1973 1953 News Chron. 2 June 1/1 Step by step, in Martian clothing, the two figures move forward, pursuing their race against time and the mountain in the slowest of slow motion. 1985 O. Sacks Man who mistook Wife i. 11 He was very unclear as to what was going on... His comments on the scene were positively Martian. B. n. 1. a. Science Fiction. An (imagined) inhabitant of Mars. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > superior planet > [noun] > Mars > inhabitant of Martian1869 1869 J. L. Motley Hist. Progress & Amer. Democracy: Addr. 1868 36 In popular periodicals and lectures of to-day you may learn much of the bays, rivers, inlets, oceans, and continents of the planet Mars... I know not whether the Martians have accepted the nomenclature of Dawes Continent, Table-Leg Bay, and the other designations laid down on their planet by the spirited geographers of ours. 1883 W. S. Lach-Szyrma Aleriel iii. iii. 109 He..brought with him another Martian, differently attired. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Aug. 2/1 Can it be..that the Martians..are endeavouring to signal to some other planet? 1898 H. G. Wells War of Worlds i. v. 31 The glimpse I had had of the Martians emerging from the cylinder in which they had come to the earth from their planet. 1901 G. B. Shaw Three Plays for Puritans Pref. p. xvii He feels concerned about the..destruction of the human race by the Martians. 1951 R. Bradbury Silver Locusts 108 From the back of the machine a Martian with melted gold for eyes looked down at Tomás. 1993 A. C. Clarke Hammer of God 64 Martians were fond of saying that it [sc. Olympus Mons] was three times the height of any mountain on Earth. b. In extended use: a person likened to an inhabitant of Mars, esp. because of strange, unconventional, or eccentric appearance or behaviour, or apparent unfamiliarity with what is generally considered to be normal. ΚΠ 1967 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary (1970) 519 What will I remember about Camp David? The two ‘Martians’ in their silver suits..fire~fighters on hand for any emergency. 1992 A. Maupin Maybe the Moon iv. 57 I could sit on a beer crate in a gay bar and amuse myself for hours, drinking and laughing and doing 'Ludes, and never once feel like a Martian. 2. A person exhibiting the combative, aggressive, or masculine qualities associated astrologically or symbolically with the planet Mars. rare. ΚΠ 1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations 239 Man is his own Martian, at war against himself. 1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations 241 The crusade against the Martian in our midst. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1395
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