Thrasonical

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thrasonical \thray-SAH-nih-kul \ adjective

Definition

: of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of Thraso (see below!)
: bragging, boastful

 

Examples

"There was never any thing so sudden but the fight of two rams and Caesar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and overcame'…."

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 1623

"After pages of thrasonical twaddle sprinkled with fawning photos, charts and esoteric columns of numbers I learned only of the flawless perfection of the university...."

— Peter B. Fletcher, Ann Arbor (Michigan) News, December 16, 2003

 

Did You Know?

Thraso was a blustering old soldier in the comedy Eunuchus, a play written by the great Roman dramatist Terence more than 2,000 years ago. Terence is generally remembered for his realistic characterizations, and in Thraso he created a swaggerer whose vainglorious boastfulness was not soon to be forgotten. Thraso's reputation as a braggart lives on in thrasonical, a word that boasts a 450-year history as an English adjective.