Catapeltic

Quick meaning: Catapeltic is an adjective meaning (military, weaponry, archaic) Pertaining to a catapult or catapults.

Meaning

(military, weaponry, archaic) Pertaining to a catapult or catapults.

More Meanings

1. (military, weaponry, obsolete, rare) A catapult.

Example Sentences

Today I will transform you into a catapeltic arrow, / and I'll send you spinning like a missile from a catapult.

[T]he superior discipline and skill of the Romans were fully compensated by the strength of position and the catapeltic engines of the Macedonians.

Has not the pulpit, which was ordained to the exhibition of Christ crucified as the Healer of human woe, been made the arena of inflammatory debate, the platform of catapeltic controversy, destructive rather than conservative, more the instrument of the Furies than of the Graces?

The western or outer, which was the narrowest front of the fortress, consisted of four towers of solid regular masonry connected by walls of equal breadth, but lower than the towers, so that balistic or catapeltic engines might be mounted upon the walls between the towers, like cannon in embrasures.

Word Forms

• catapeltics

Synonyms for catapeltic

Depending on context, synonyms include catapultic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include catapultic, catapletic, cataphractic, catapleurotic, cataplerotic, cataplectic.

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