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Draconic, a.|drəˈkɒnɪk|
[f. L. draco, -ōnem, ad. Gr. δράκων dragon, also f. the Greek personal name, Δράκων, Draco: see -ic.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Draco, archon at Athens in 621 b.c., or the severe code of laws said to have been established by him; rigorous, harsh, severe, cruel.
1708Motteux Rabelais v. xi. (1737) 43 Any Law so rigorous and Draconic. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 35 Their criminal code, which was Draconic in severity.
2. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a dragon.
1680H. More Apocal. Apoc. 118 ‘The great Dragon was cast out’..This..signified the destruction of the Empire as Draconick and Idolatrous. 1791tr. Swedenborg's Apoc. Rev. xiv. §655 To whom the draconic spirit addressed the same words. 1820Scott Abbot xv, ‘Marry come up—are you there with your bears?’ muttered the dragon, with a draconic silliness.
3. Astron. = dracontic.
(Sometimes erroneously explained as ‘Relating to the constellation Draco’.)
1876G. Chambers Astron. ii. i. 174 This is termed a ‘nodical revolution of the Moon.’ note. Sometimes the Draconic Period. |