| For those lacking a decent dictionary, allow | | | | 2. Quitching: protagonists attempt to outwit |
| me to edify you on the derivation of the term | | | | their opponents, employing techniques such as |
| 'martial'; which is: an adjectival form | | | | fiendishly feinting by making sudden |
| derived from the appellation of the Roman god | | | | involuntary movements, somewhat in the Bruce |
| of war, Mars. | | | | Lee style, without the accompanying cries |
| | | | from the solar plexus. Quoted by Montaigne |
| As a form of sport or exercise, it serves as | | | | as, "I have seen men .. that would neither |
| training for warfare. Being ruled | | | | cry out, twitch nor quitch, for a good |
| astrologically by the planet Mars, it's a | | | | swinging beating." |
| term applied to 'venomous animals, or plants | | | | |
| with violently active properties'!An | | | | 3. Quelming: an ancient, extremely hard form |
| authority recently described 170 different | | | | indulged in by "chyldren, and fornycatours" |
| forms of the martial arts, ranging from | | | | aiming to torment, kill, or destroy. Sadly, |
| Aikido to Zendo, maintaining new ones were | | | | the techniques were expurgated as being too |
| invented virtually every week by some | | | | violent for general public consumption. |
| self-styled master who had either | | | | |
| rediscovered some long lost art in an obscure | | | | 4. Vezon : a particularly enigmatic form |
| backwater, or had devised some ingenious use | | | | defined by the OED as - "meaning obscure" - |
| for a hitherto unused body part. The arts | | | | quoted by Ward as "Look, look, Joan, how the |
| covered every letter of the alphabet, apart | | | | Vezons fight. Who'd think they were so full |
| from E, Q, V, and X. Accordingly, I have | | | | of Spite?" |
| striven to render complete this lexicon of | | | | |
| the martial arts">martial arts. After many | | | | 5. Xenelasy: a particularly effective Spartan |
| years of undertaking diligent research in the | | | | method to be employed for when we Brits |
| snowy mountain fastnesses of Japan, the rain | | | | reinvade in order to re-educate you in the |
| forests of Borneo, and the nether regions of | | | | correct conventions of spelling and |
| Nana Plaza, Bangkok, I have rediscovered the | | | | pronunciation. Meaning 'to drive away', it |
| missing arts, which I have pleasure in | | | | employs a variety of free-forms and is the |
| presenting to novelty-seeking martial arts' | | | | martial art par excellence to be used for the |
| aficionados for your delectation. They are as | | | | expulsion of foreigners. Incidentally, don't |
| follows: | | | | bother to try and find these names of martial |
| | | | arts in condensed dictionaries like Webster's |
| 1. Ebrangling: an exclusive, particularly | | | | or Frank and Wagnall's, they're taken from |
| hard form indulged in by edentulous | | | | the Bible of the English Language, the Oxford |
| geriatrics in order to effatuate their | | | | English Dictionary. Likewise, the internet |
| opponents. Simply put, the toothless-ancients | | | | won't offer you any enlightenment on the |
| dismount from their Zimmer frames, shuffle, | | | | modus operandi, or access to the dojos where |
| successfully grapple, and ultimately clench | | | | these forms are practised, either, and I'm |
| their partners in a bear hug, violently | | | | keeping the techniques secret in the |
| shaking them so as to render them besotted, | | | | interests of world peace. SEO Solutions and |
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