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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to ancient Carthage, a city and state on the northern coast of Africa, near the modern Tunis, founded by the Phenicians of Tyre in the ninth century B.C. See Punic.
- n. An inhabitant or a native of Carthage.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of a pertaining to ancient Carthage, a city of northern Africa.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or characteristic of ancient Carthage or its people or their language
- n. a native or inhabitant of ancient Carthage
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“Puritans create images of hats that sound like hannibal and hannibal of carthaginian flats”
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Gidlund From John Cassidy, writing in the New Yorker, October 10, 2011:
"Outraged by this Carthaginian settlement, John Maynard Keynes wrote his first best-seller, 'The Economic Consequences of the Peace,' warning that the Versailles Treaty would prove disastrous for the victors as well as for the defeated."
Nov 10, 2011
Gidlund This dialogue from the play Sleuth provides a good example:
MILO. I understand. How much sacking do you want done?
ANDREW. A decent bit, I think. A few chairs on their backs, some china ornaments put to the sword. You know—convincing but not Carthaginian.
Jan 29, 2011