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  • adjective pertaining to Frederick the Great or to the time of his rule

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Frederic(k) + -ian.

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Examples

  • Jeff: my interest in 1806 stems from the Prussian army, looking nice and pretty and Frederician in style, getting bashed by the Corsican Ogre.

    On The Work Bench Der Alte Fritz 2008

  • I did a short stint seven years to be exact as editor of the Seven Years War Association Journal and joined two tours of the Frederician battlefield sites with noted author and scholar Christopher Duffy in 1994 and 1998.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Der Alte Fritz 2007

  • I visited Leuthen (or Lutinya, as it is now named) in 1998 as part of the second Christopher Duffy tour of Frederician battlefield sites in Silesia (which is now a part of Poland).

    Archive 2007-12-01 Der Alte Fritz 2007

  • First Element: The Prussian army of the period still retains many of the trappings of its Frederician organization and appearance.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Der Alte Fritz 2007

  • Clausewitzian ideas on the scientific management of war dominated military thought, and Napoleonic mili - tary ideas were as uniformly widespread as Frederician ones had been in 1789.

    WAR AND MILITARISM THEODORE ROPP 1968

  • She has lived up to the worst principles of the Frederician tradition -- the tradition which disregards all obligations of right and wrong at the bidding of immediate self-interest.

    New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? Various

  • This doctrine of the "Frederician Tradition" does not mean that the

    Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work C. Creighton Mandell 1922

  • "Frederician Tradition," which Mr. Belloc has put into the following terms:

    Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work C. Creighton Mandell 1922

  • This "Frederician Tradition" must be closely noted by the reader, because it is the principal moral cause of the present war.

    A General Sketch of the European War The First Phase Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • This doctrine of the "Frederician Tradition" does not mean that the

    A General Sketch of the European War The First Phase Hilaire Belloc 1911

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