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单词 hannibal
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Hannibaln.

/ˈhanɪbəl/
Etymology: < the name of Hannibal, a Carthaginian general who fought against Rome in the third century b.c.
allusively. A great general. (Also, in Shakespeare, humorously confounded with cannibal n.).
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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

Compounds

Hannibal eye n. Obsolete a blind eye.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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