单词 | napoleonist |
释义 | Napoleonistn.adj. A. n. A supporter of Napoleon I or the Napoleonic dynasty. Cf. Bonapartist n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > French politics > [noun] > support of specific dynasty or government > supporter of Armagnac1420 Anglo-French1796 Napoleonist1814 Bonapartist1815 Bourbonist1820 Orleanist1834 Vichyist1943 Vichyite1943 1814 J. Mackintosh Jrnl. 31 Aug. in Mem. Life Sir J. Mackintosh (1835) II. v. 296 The army and the populace of the towns are Napoleonists. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 805/2 The unparalleled flatteries of the Napoleonists. 1890 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 112 I began life at five or six years old as a fervent Napoleonist. 1970 E. Tangye Lean Napoleonists Pref. p. xii There were certainly Napoleonists [in England]. 1999 Guardian (Electronic ed.) 20 Nov. [Napoleon's] supporters referred to him as ‘Corporal Violet’ and wore the secret sign of violets in their buttonholes... Napoleonists could draw encouragement from gazing at a coloured engraving of violets until the exile's portrait gradually emerged. B. adj. Of or relating to Napoleon I or the Napoleonic dynasty. In quot. 1989 in extended use: radical; romantically revolutionary. Cf. Bonapartist adj., Napoleonic adj., Napoleonistic adj. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > French politics > [adjective] > relating or adhering to specific dynasty or government Guisian1579 Napoleonist1849 Orleanistic1865 Bonapartist1869 Vichyite1945 1849 Littell's Living Age Jan. 139/1 Some of the Napoleonist journals have no mercy on the vanquished. 1870 G. A. Townsend New World compared with Old 562 Passing by the Napoleonist party for the present, we come to the other two personal parties of France. 1898 Polit. Sci. Q. 13 766 Zurlinde's action was connected..with evidences of suspicious activity on the part of the Napoleonist pretender. 1919 H. M. Hyndman Clemenceau 4 We marvel at the strange turn of events which got rid of Napoleonist King Log in order to replace him by a Napoleonist King Stork. 1970 E. Tangye Lean Napoleonists Pref. p. xi There was..a Napoleonist syndrome, which went some way to explain the policy of defection. 1989 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 15 May The 20th-century procession of mythical homelands for the Left... The sponsored visits by Napoleonist playwrights and novelists; the solidarity rallies in London and Paris, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1814 |
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