1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres i. i. 2 Peace breedes securitie; securitie, carelesse mindes: carelesse mindes, contempt of war: contempt of war, vnmartial minds.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xxii. 227/2 [They] consumed their times in banquetting, and vnmartiall disports.

1691 H. Maydman Naval Speculations 305 It tending to nothing, but the Softening, Effeminating, and Debauching the People; destroying their Prowess, and at the end will make them both Poor and Unmartial.

1747 W. King Toast ii. 76 Long ago we had heard your unmartial Exploit: But the Cause was unknown, why you're thus unadroit.

1797 Monthly Mag. 3 306 The effect of the whole is so dry and unmartial as to do little credit to the musical taste of Louis the XVIth.

1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur 520 This most unmartial figure.

1901 M. E. Henry-Ruffin John Gildart 30 The smile begun at his unmartial air, And weary self and steed vanished at sight Of the set soldier look upon his face.

1997 W. I. Miller Anat. Disgust ix. 208 It only undermined certain foundations of respect for myself, as contemptibly unphysical, miserably unmartial.

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. ii. 180 To unmartiall the whole man, and leave him without steel or iron upon him, is as if you should pare the nailes of a Lyon.