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Definition of Thrasonical
1. a. Of or pertaining to Thraso; like, or becoming to, Thraso; bragging; boastful; vainglorious.
Definition of Thrasonical
1. Adjective. Like Thraso (a character in the play Eunuchus by Terence); boastful, bragging, vainglorious. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thrasonical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrasonical
Literary usage of Thrasonical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction, Classical Mediæval, Legendary: Famous by William Shepard Walsh (1915)
"... in the Eunuchus, a comedy by Terence, a boastful, swaggering soldier. Hence the
epithet " thrasonical " used by ..."
2. Love's Labor's Lost by William Shakespeare (2001)
"And also from Orlando Furioso, f Knowing him to be a thrasonical mad-cap,' etc.
— KNIGHT gives from Fuller's Worthies, 'a thrasonical puff, and emblem of ..."
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