trophæal English

Meaning trophæal meaning

What does trophæal mean?

trophæal adjective

— (obsolete) Pertaining to a trophy or to trophies.

— (obsolete) Adorned with trophies.

— (Roman antiquity, of a monument or memorial) Erected without Senatical grant by a prevailing general as a trophy (or tropæum) commemorating a battle in which he was victorious; compare triumphal.

— Exhibited as a trophy of victory in war.