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Meaning of trophæal | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
/tɹəʊˈfiːəl/

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to a trophy or to trophies.
    not-comparable, obsolete
  2. Adorned with trophies.
    not-comparable, obsolete
  3. Erected without Senatical grant by a prevailing general as a trophy (or tropæum) commemorating a battle in which he was victorious; compare triumphal.
    Roman, historical, not-comparable
  4. Exhibited as a trophy of victory in war.
    not-comparable

Examples

“He stiled himself thus Augustus Cæsar Octavianus Trophaeall.”
“Her streets of old did shine with trumphing Cæsars and Consuls in their trophæal Chariots.”
“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, afford alſo ſeveral circumſtances, which will intereſt the attentive traveller.”
“[…H]e would have ſeen with what an endeavour at accuracy (in pages 36, 7, 8) I have diſtinguiſhed trophæal monuments, erected on the fields of battle by the generals and their armies, from triumphal arches, erected by the authority of government, after theſe generals had been admitted to the honour of a triumph.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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