Prussian
['prʌʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a German inhabitant of Prussia.
(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of Prussia or its inhabitants; 'Prussian officers'; 'Prussian aristocracy' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to Prussia.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Prussia.
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Definition
adj. of or pertaining to Prussia.—n. an inhabitant of Prussia.—v.t. Pruss′ianise.—n. Pruss′iate a salt of prussic acid: a cyanide.—adj. Pruss′ic pertaining to Prussian blue.—Prussian blue cyanide of potassium and iron; Prussic acid a deadly poison an acid first obtained from Prussian blue—also Hydrocyanic acid.
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Examples
- Like our own war between the States, the Franco-Prussian war was an expensive one; but it was worth to France all it cost her people. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Dr. Koch, who had srved in the Franco-Prussian War, succeeded in 1876 in obtaining pure cultures of this bacillus and in defining its relation to the dis ease. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- This was the Needle Gun, of which 60,000 were issued to the Prussian army in 1841, and which was first used in 1848, in the German war with Denmark. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The _Chassepot_, brought out in 1867, United States patent No. 60,832, was a French development of the Prussian needle gun. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- There had been a brief all-German parliament at Frankfort in 1848, which was overthrown in 1849 by the Prussian monarchy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Any desired color can be used, such as Prussian blue, chrome green, yellow, vermilion, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The Prussian monarchy was simply delaying the inevitable in order to seem to achieve it in Prussian fashion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The selling of newspapers had its birth in Constantinople about a year ago, and was a child of the Prussian and Austrian war. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- One-fourth of an ounce of Prussian blue may be used instead of the water blue aniline. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The Prussian contingent had surrendered to the Russians; the Austrians had gone homeward to the south. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich the year after the Franco-Prussian War. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- A not very resolute Prussian advance was checked,[442] the French infantry stood firm, their artillery was better than the allied artillery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here was a movement that promised to make him as splendidly important as his Prussian brother in arms. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Except the Tsardom, no other European state had so preserved the tradition of the Grand Monarchy of the eighteenth century as the Prussian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And the tradition of the Thirty Years War still influenced the Prussian army. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Prussians, after the disaster of Jena in 1807, had set to work to put their house in order. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All other nations were represented as incompetent and decadent; the Prussians were the leaders and regenerators of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Prussians were three to one at Jena, and he took their army and kingdom in a week. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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