Hypertext Webster Gateway: "gnomic"

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

gnomic
adj : relating to or containing gnomes


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