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Definition of Peninsular
1. Adjective. Of or forming or resembling a peninsula. "Peninsular isolation"
Definition of Peninsular
1. a. Of or pertaining to a peninsula; as, a peninsular form; peninsular people; the peninsular war.
Definition of Peninsular
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or connected with a peninsula. ¹
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Definition of Peninsular
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peninsular
Literary usage of Peninsular
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1896)
"The plan of the peninsular Campaign was an unfortunate one, from the fact that
the President's consent to it had actually been wrung from him, his objection ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1904)
"A History of the peninsular War. By Charles Oman. Vols I and n. Oxford : Clarendon
Press, 1902-3. 2. The Diary of Sir John Moore. Edited by Major- General ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"... region earthquakes are still common, whilst in peninsular India they are rare.
peninsular peninsular INDIA.—The oldest rocks here consist of gneiss, ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"For his peninsular services he was promoted to colonel and made a KCB Under his
... peninsular War; London Gazettes, various.] HMC ELLIS, HUMPHREY, DD (d. ..."
5. The Southern Review (1832)
"THE author of Cyril Thornton (of which our opinion has heen already expressed)
has, recently, published his " Annals of the peninsular War. ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1850)
"MY peninsular MEDAL. BY AN OLD peninsular. PART V.—CHAPTER XII. ON reaching the
General's quarters, I thought it best not to report myself to his Excellency ..."
7. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1827)
"AFTER a sufficient interval of four years, since the publication of the first
volume of his history of the peninsular War, Mr. Southey has here given to the ..."
8. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1906)
"CHAPTER V. THE peninsular WAR. REFERENCE has already been made to the conflict
maintained CHAP. for six years by Great Britain against France for the ..."
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