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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[From

Thrso

, the name of a braggart soldier in Terence’s “Eunuch:” cf. L.

Thrasonianus

Of or pertaining to Thraso; like, or becoming to, Thraso; bragging; boastful; vainglorious.

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Thra-son′ic-al-ly

adv.

Caesar's

thrasonical

brag of 'I came, saw, and overcame.'

Shakespeare

Adj.

[from Thraso, a boaster in old comedy.]

Boasting; given to bragging.

Boastful; implying ostentatious display.

thrasonical ‎(comparative more thrasonical, superlative most thrasonical)

Like Thraso (a character in the play Eunuchus by Terence); boastful, bragging, vainglorious.
- 1556, Nicholas Ridley, bishop of London, quoted by John Fox in Acts & Monuments:
  The Sorbonicall clamours (which at Paris I haue ſene in time paſt whē poperie moſt raigned) might be worthily thought in compariſon of thys traſonicall oſtentation to haue had much modeſtie.
- 1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff:
  In amongst his general thrasonical ranting and ravings concerning his own merits, Skogan had promised the company that tomorrow the world would know how good his verses were – when he read aloud at the court gate some poem which he had written in honour of the birthday of Thomas, Duke of Clarence.