单词 | hannibal |
释义 | Hannibaln. allusively. A great general. (Also, in Shakespeare, humorously confounded with cannibal n.). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [noun] > skilled or able Hannibal1585 captain1590 1585 J. Stell in T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie Ded. ⁋iii b Were it not that I feare the censure of some politike Hanniball. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. i. 168 Proue this, thou wicked Hanniball . View more context for this quotation CompoundsΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > blindness > blind eye Hannibal eyea1652 walleye1866 a1652 R. Brome New Acad. iii. i. 57 in Five New Playes (1659) I passe For a brisk youth. But for my Hannibal eye here. Derivatives Hannibalian adj. /hænɪˈbeɪlɪən/ = Hannibalic adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [adjective] > skilled or able Hannibalic1678 Hannibalian1880 Lawrentian1928 1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 444/2 In the year 202 b.c. the Second Punic, or, more properly, the Hannibalian War was at an end. Hannibalic adj. /-ˈbælɪk/ of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Hannibal. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [adjective] > skilled or able Hannibalic1678 Hannibalian1880 Lawrentian1928 1678 J. D. (title) The History of Appian..In Two Parts. The First consisting of the Punick..and Hannibalick Wars. 1862 W. P. Dickson tr. T. Mommsen Hist. Rome II. iii. vi. 189 Thus ended the second Punic, or as the Romans more correctly called it, the Hannibalic, war. 1886 H. F. Lester Under Two Fig Trees 135 And baby had registered a Hannibalic vow. 1904 T. R. Glover Virgil v. 101 It was some feeling of this kind that kept so much of Italy loyal to Rome throughout the Hannibalic war. 1934 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. II. v. 162 The advance of the Roman frontier..was a direct..consequence of the Hannibalic War itself. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1585 |
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