Unmilitary

a. [UN-¹ 7.]

  1.  Not in accordance with military practice or conforming to military standards.

1777.  W. Dalrymple, Trav. Sp. & Port., cxliii. The king has a large … army, which had better be reduced, than continue in its present unmilitary state.

1806.  Ann. Rev., IV. 246. Defence—the very word is unmilitary.

1826.  Scott, Woodst., xii. We must not hazard the whole troops in one sortie—that were unmilitary.

1861.  Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt. Part., III. clxxiv. 206. It is simply unmilitary babble, that would talk of the difficulty of doing what is wanted, when once the military superiority is decided.

  2.  Not belonging to, or connected with, the military profession.

1802–12.  Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), V. 663. Suppose two persons in office, military and unmilitary.

1883.  American, VI. 233. [This] may be objected to in unmilitary quarters.