MACDONALD is magniloquent, perhaps a bit thrasonical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891] Reference

Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast.    From Wordnik.com.  [December 7th, 2005] Reference

He guffawed silently in his own mental chamber at such sanctimonious, thrasonical ravings, for childish behavior of long ago was not evidence for his untenable claim of being a kind man and thus a good one.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference

The monster's thrasonical boasting is thus given (Yt. 19, 43).    From Wordnik.com.  [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3] Reference

Unlike the ordinary soldier of fortune, he was not in the least thrasonical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dictator] Reference

Not since the superb Mondor amazed the world has so thrasonical a bully been seen upon the stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scaramouche] Reference

Buckingham's fanfaronading, thrasonical disposition, a form of vain, empty boasting peculiar to megalomaniacs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series] Reference

His “thrasonical boast” was sober truth, and he stands above military or literary criticism, a lesson and a model.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Froude]

His manner is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, and his general behaviour, vain, ridiculous and thrasonical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded] Reference

Let your extemporaneous descants and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and voracious vivacity without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Secular Franciscan Life] Reference

His humor is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behavior vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook] Reference

For instance, the refrain of "Rule, Britannia!" would be shorn of its thrasonical quality and rendered suitable for use in elementary schools if it took the following form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 12, 1916] Reference

Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behavior vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Labour's Lost] Reference

Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act V. Scene I. Love’s Labour’s Lost] Reference

Novi hominem tanquam te -- his humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelham — Complete] Reference

Climene, was moved almost to tears by the hard fate which through four long acts kept her from the hungering arms of the so beautiful Leandre, howled its delight over the ignominy of Pantaloon, the buffooneries of his sprightly lackey Harlequin, and the thrasonical strut and bellowing fierceness of the cowardly Rhodomont.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scaramouche] Reference

Macaulay tempted more of them to declaim: if Mill set an example of patience, tolerance, and fair examination of hostile opinions, Macaulay did much to encourage oracular arrogance, and a rather too thrasonical complacency; if Mill sowed ideas of the great economic, political, and moral bearings of the forces of society, Macaulay trained a taste for superficial particularities, trivial circumstantialities of local colour, and all the paraphernalia of the pseudo-picturesque.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay] Reference

"Thus, O thrasonical coward, is your emptiness exposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scaramouche] Reference

"thrasonical boast" was sober truth, and he stands above military or literary criticism, a lesson and a model.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Froude] Reference

"You may think so if you choose -- that I am afraid to do slyly and treacherously that which a thrasonical patriot like yourself is afraid of doing frankly and openly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scaramouche] Reference

Nay, ’tis true: there was never anything so sudden but the fight of two rams, and Cæsar’s thrasonical brag of ‘I came, saw, and overcame: ’ for your brother and my sister no sooner met, but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy: and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act V. Scene II. As You Like It] Reference

O, I know where you are: nay, 'tis true: there was never any thing so sudden but the fight of two rams and Caesar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and overcame:' for your brother and my sister no sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked but they loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason, no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage: they are in the very wrath of love and they will together; clubs cannot part them.    From Wordnik.com.  [As You Like It] Reference

O, I know where you are: nay, ’tis true: there was never any thing so sudden but the fight of two rams and Caesar’s thrasonical brag of ‘I came, saw, and overcame:’ for your brother and my sister no sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked but they loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason, no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage: they are in the very wrath of love and they will together; clubs cannot part them.    From Wordnik.com.  [As You Like It] Reference

Mr. Balfour's somewhat thrasonical eulogies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slang.] Reference

Like washy WARTON's, nor so loud thrasonical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 7, 1893] Reference

A quarrelsome, somewhat thrasonical fighting man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slang.] Reference

T is for thrasonical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Budapest Times]

Runagate Jews, the cut-throats and robbers of Christians, slow-bellied monks, who have made escape from their cloisters, simoniacal and perjured shavelings, busy Sir John lack-Latins, thrasonical and unlettered chemists, shifting and outcast pettifoggers, light-headed and trivial druggers and apothecaries, sun-shunning night-birds and corner-creepers, dull-pated and base mechanics, stage-players, jugglers, peddlers, prittle-prattling barbers, filthy graziers, curious bath-keepers, common shifters and cogging cavaliers, bragging soldiers, lazy clowns, one-eyed or lamed fencers, toothless and tattling old wives, chattering char-women and nurse-keepers, long-tongued midwives, 'scape-Tyburns, dog-leeches, and such-like baggage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference