Adjective : a heroic ambition. ,a heroic explorer. ,Heroic measures were taken to save his life. ,heroic mythology. ,a statue of heroic proportions.    From Dictionary.com. 

The part affected in men is the liver, and therefore called heroical, because commonly gallants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

The son of this heiress was the 'heroical' Lord Audley who so greatly distinguished himself at the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

A kind of heroical scorn he bid Aeneas take her, or with a milder farewell, let her go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Causes of honest love; of heroical love; of jealousy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Pen got back at once to his tragic and heroical air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

Such considerations were beneath his heroical temper.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Travellers of the Renaissance] Reference

In the heroical time when to Love the Deities yielded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference

Phoebique sacerdos: but those heroical times are past; the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

        Altar of heroes Troy, Troy of heroical acts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems and Fragments] Reference

And that even to the heroical, Cupid hath ambitiously climbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

Plantations are amongst ancient, primitive, and heroical works.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Essays] Reference

Arnoldus Villanovanus, in his book of heroical love, defines it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

The bravest soldiers and most heroical spirits could not avoid it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

How different from the manly and heroical poetry of Greece and Rome!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frankenstein] Reference

How different from the manly and heroical poetry of Greece and Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

Mezentius is the most heroical and pious of all the characters in the Aeneid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference

Gradually to overcome them, by contending with them, was the part of heroical courage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference

An amor sit morbus, whether this heroical love be a disease: Julius Pollux Onomast. lib.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Plancus, those heroical Romans to make away themselves, than to fall into their enemies 'hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Sit not down in the popular seats and common level of virtues, but endeavour to make them heroical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter to a Friend] Reference

And the service they ask of her is in no way contrary to her Majesty's honour, but a noble and heroical act.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]

Granville, Greenvil, Greenfield, with two or three other variations, was one of those truly heroical personages whom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!] Reference

More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love’s Labour ’s Lost] Reference

The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Essays] Reference

Alexander as it semeth, learned many heroical vertues, poli - cie, wisedome, & counsaill thereof, els he occupied in so migh.    From Wordnik.com.  [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference

Let us, however, also remark, that no fault is worse than that loftiness of mind, which many deem a most heroical disposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference

There is no man so pusillanimous, so very a dastard, whom love would not incense, make of a divine temper, and an heroical spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

He must fight singly to-morrow with Hector, and is so prophetically proud of an heroical cudgelling that he raves in saying nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Troilus and Cressida] Reference

After a few more remarks of a very personal and pungent nature the little fellow marched off with a delicious swagger and an heroical air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference

She would have vowed that it was the sole potentially heroical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

He could present you heroical actions in that fashion; for example.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference

If his temper is high, it is an element of a character proved heroical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference

The figure heroical, the splendid, active youth, hallowed Aminta's past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference

She really had the heroical aspect in a grandiose-grotesque, fitted to some lines of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference

Then the question came, How could a girl of heroical character be attached to the man Sowerby?.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference

Love pressed its claim on heroical generosity, and instantly it suffused her, as an earth under flush of sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference