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trophaeal

trophaeal is the alternative spelling of trophæal.

Meaning of trophæal

Adjective

trophæal (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Pertaining to a trophy or to trophies.
    • He stiled himself thus Augustus Cæsar Octavianus Trophaeall.1646, John Gregory, Notes and Observations upon some Passages of Scripture, page 163
  2. (obsolete) Adorned with trophies.
    • Her streets of old did shine with trumphing Cæsars and Consuls in their trophæal Chariots.1660, Character of Italy, by an English Chyrurgion, page 6
  3. (Roman, historical) Erected without Senatical grant by a prevailing general as a trophy (or tropæum) commemorating a battle in which he was victorious; compare triumphal.
    • This place contains ſo many remarkable remains, and collections ſo curious, that we are ſorry to paſs by it curſorily. We adviſe the reader and the traveller to be leſs haſty. The trophæal arch and the ſepulchral monument, at Glanum Livii, a colony probably eſtabliſhed by M. Livius Druſus Libo...1788?: Tobias George Smollett [ed.], The Critical Review: or, Annals of Literature, volume 65, page 454
  4. Exhibited as a trophy of victory in war.

Questions about trophaeal

What is trophaeal the alternative spelling of?
Trophaeal is the alternative spelling of trophæal.

Words near trophaeal in the dictionary

  1. troper
  2. tropers
  3. tropery
  4. tropes
  5. tropey
  6. trophaeal
  7. trophaeall
  8. trophallactic
  9. trophallaxes
  10. trophallaxis
  11. tropharium

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