Thrasonical

His History of _Henry_ the Fourth is very much commended by some, as being full of sublime Wit, and as much condemned by others, for making Sir _John Falstaffe_ the property of Pleasure for Prince _Henry_ to abuse, as one that was a _Thrasonical

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

In the sixteenth century, far more than in the nineteenth, the nations boiled and bubbled with spleen and jealousy, hurled Thrasonical threats and hyperbolic boasts in each other's teeth, breathing out mutual extermination with no compunctious visitings of nature to stay their hungry swords -- but when they came to blows they had not the power of boys.

The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

How intolerable would have been the presumption of his Thrasonical, "I thrashed the Helvetians -- I subjugated the Germans -- I utterly routed the Gauls -- I defeated the painted Britons!"

Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

‘thrasonical’, from Thraso, the braggart of the Roman comedy.

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

Henry the Fourth is very much commended by some, as being full of sublime Wit, and as much condemned by others, for making Sir John Falstaffe the property of Pleasure for Prince Henry to abuse, as one that was a Thrasonical Puff, and emblem of mock Valour; though indeed he was a man of Arms every inch of him, and as valiant as any his Age, being for his Martial Prowess made Knight of the Garter by King Henry the 6th.

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698 1687

His humor is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behavior vain, ridiculous, and Thrasonical.’”

The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes Terence 1847