Definition of trophæal in English English dictionary
- Exhibited as a trophy of victory in war
I want to conclude with an observation based on a contrast between the art of the First Johannesburg Biennale and the trophaeal art that almost concurrently went on display at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg — art the Russian troops had taken away from a Germany defeated as an emblem of that defeat.
- Erected without Senatical grant by a prevailing general as a trophy (or tropæum) commemorating a battle in which he was victorious; compare triumphal
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.
- Adorned with trophies
Her streets of old did shine with trumphing Cæsars and Consuls in their trophæal Chariots.
- Pertaining to a trophy or to trophies
He stiled himself thus Augustus Cæsar Octavianus Trophaeall.