Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Gnomical"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gnomical \Gnom"ic*al\, a. [See {Gnomon}.]
Gnomonical. --Boyle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gnomic \Gnom"ic\, Gnomical \Gnom"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ?: cf.
F. gnomique. See {Gnome} maxim.]
Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking
detached thoughts; aphoristic.
A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic
poetry. --G. R. Lewes.
{Gnomic Poets}, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the
sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short
sententious precepts and reflections.
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