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