thrasonical

Via Latin from Greek Θρασων (a boastful soldier in Terence’s Eunuchus), from θρασυς ‘bold, spirited’.

• IPA^(key): /θɹəˈsɒnɪkəl/

thrasonical (comparative more thrasonical, superlative most thrasonical)

1. 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.

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