Napoleonic
adjective
pertaining to, resembling, or suggestive of Napoleon I, or, less often, Napoleon III, or their dynasty.
pre-Napoleonic
-
a word derived from
Napoleonic.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The creole elites’ resentment over the reinstatement of pre-Napoleonic policy allowed the search for independence to spark.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
A hapless housebreaker and a credulous co-conspirator, his criminal misadventures were equaled only by his skill escaping from the dungeons and bagnes that passed for a penal system in the pre-Napoleonic era.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2011
And so it proved, for the wars of the middle nineteenth century did in fact revert to the pre-Napoleonic type.
From Some Principles of Maritime Strategy by Julian S. (Julian Stafford) Corbett
In essentials, though not in all respects, there was a return to the situation of pre-Napoleonic times.
From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg
That is all very pretty, and sounds pre-Napoleonic, but we cannot all swallow sweet, cantish little nothings in place of food and wages.
From The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Walter Runciman
