thrasonic

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thrasonic (comparative more thrasonic, superlative most thrasonic)

  1. (obsolete) thrasonical
    • 1892, Various, Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 5, 1892[1]:
      In praise of Brandenburg the Shouting Emperor spoke, In language like a huge thrasonic joke.
    • 1890, Grant Allen, The Great Taboo[2]:
      Tu-Kila-Kila lifted himself up in his thrasonic mood.
    • 1789, Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson[3]:
      But we cannot expect a foreign nation to show that apathy to the answers of the President, which are more thrasonic than the addresses.