| 单词 |
thrasonical |
| 释义 |
thrasonical, a.|θrəˈsɒnɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1: see -ical.]
Resembling Thraso or his behaviour; given to or marked by boasting; bragging, boastful, vainglorious.
1564Coverdale tr. Ridley in Lett. Mart. 76 In comparison of this Thrasonicall and glorious ostentation. 1590[see gnathonical]. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. v. ii. 34 Cesars Thrasonicall bragge of I came, saw, and ouercame. 1755Carte Hist. Eng. IV. 130 note, It is too thrasonical to deserve any credit. 1877Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. ii. 374 Ocular arrogance, and a rather too thrasonical complacency. 1893McCarthy Dictator II. x. 3 Unlike the ordinary soldier of fortune, he was not in the least thrasonical.
Hence thraˈsonically adv., in a thrasonical manner.
1591Greene Farewell to Folly Wks. (Grosart) IX. 249 Such..as Thrasonically countenance themselues wt the title of a souldior. 1626L. Owen Spec. Jesuit (1629) 59 These..fathers doe very Thrasonically brag, that their society or order, was diuinely ordained. 1755Johnson s.v. Rodomontade, To brag thrasonically, to boast like Rodomonte. 1862Beveridge Hist. India II. v. viii. 509 General Stuart..had rashly and thrasonically pledged himself, that..‘the army might and must move’. |
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