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- adjective Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family.
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Examples
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It has long since been evident [36] that Scinde, by that _principle of unavoidable expansion_ to which we had so often had occasion to refer, must eventually have been absorbed into the dominions of the Company; but the process by which it at last came into our hands is so curious a specimen of our Bonapartean method of dealing with reluctant or refractory neutrals, that we cannot pass it altogether without notice.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various
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France might be imperial, or royal, or republican, she might be Bonapartean, or
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various
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Bonapartean maxim -- "There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous."
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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But here I was again mistaken; for Mehevi, in conducting his warlike operations, rather inclined to the Fabian than to the Bonapartean tactics, husbanding his resources and exposing his troops to no unnecessary hazards.
Typee Herman Melville 1855
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Bonapartean tactics, husbanding his resources and exposing his troops to no unnecessary hazards.
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But here I was again mistaken; for Mehevi, in conducting his warlike operations, rather inclined to the Fabian than to the Bonapartean tactics, husbanding his resources and exposing his troops to no unnecessary hazards.
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