Definition of Napoleonic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or like Napoleon Bonaparte. "Napoleonic Wars"

Partainyms: Napoleon
Derivative terms: Napoleon

Definition of Napoleonic

1. a. Of or pertaining to Napoleon I., or his family; resembling, or having the qualities of, Napoleon I.

Definition of Napoleonic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte; ''as'', the Napoleonic Wars. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Napoleonic

Napier
Napier's bones
Napier's rods
Napierian
Napierian logarithm
Napierite
Napierites
Naples
Naples biscuit
Naples garlic
Naples yellow
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon I
Napoleon III
Napoleonic
Napoleonic Wars
Napoleonist
Napoleonists
Napoleons
Napoli
Naprosyn
Napster
Naqua
Nar Phu
Nara
Nara period
Narail District
Naraka
Narayan

Literary usage of Napoleonic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1908)
"The napoleonic Empire in Southern Italy. By RM Johnston. London : Macmillan, 1904. o. ... Studies in napoleonic Statesmanship in Germany. By HAL Fisher. ..."

2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"19th Cent 76:1271-82 D '14 Why the napoleonic idea may render the great war a ... Am Hist R 21:98-100 O 'U napoleonic wars Lesson from the last great war. ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"In very truth this napoleonic cult, to which the Government sacrificed—as if in the hope of winning pardon for its own timidities abroad— seemed harmless ..."

4. British History in the Nineteenth Century (1782-1901) by George Macaulay Trevelyan (1922)
"CHAPTER VII The napoleonic struggle, I., ... THE napoleonic war (1 803-15) that followed the brief interval of the Peace of Amiens ..."

5. The Bookman (1915)
"COYA Y LUCIENTES, 1746-1828 Collection of the New York Public Library GRIM WAR IN THE napoleonic ERA. ..."

6. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"For all the trade of Germany had been dislocated and the mercantile classes embittered by the napoleonic "Continental System," which was to ruin Britain by ..."

7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... the napoleonic legislation for his model. Only the opposition of the Prussian ... napoleonic ..."

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