Napoleonic
[nuh-poh-lee-on-ik]
- pertaining to, resembling, or suggestive of Napoleon I, or, less often, Napoleon III, or their dynasty: the Napoleonic era; a Napoleonic attitude toward one's employees.
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Origin of Napoleonic
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Contemporary Examples
Napoleonic land warfare, like the wars of Greece and Rome, moved at walking pace, from the raising of forces to the day of battle.
He went to the British Museum every day and he read books about the Napoleonic Wars.
Germans who came of age in the early 1800s, he argued, were shaped by the Napoleonic wars.
Historical Examples
Probably she has the whole thing settled in her Napoleonic mind.
The Green Satin GownLaura E. Richards
The war is assuming a phase very like that of the Napoleonic struggles.
War Letters of a Public-School BoyPaul Jones.
I had heard in my boyhood a good deal of the great Napoleonic legend.
A Set of SixJoseph Conrad
In appearance it roughly resembled a mighty Napoleonic nose.
The Right StuffIan Hay
A New Simplon and a peaceful Napoleonic mind will accomplish this.
Canada and the CanadiansSir Richard Henry Bonnycastle
Napoleonic
- relating to or characteristic of Napoleon I or his era
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