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gnomic
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Word definitions for gnomic in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He was pretty gnomic by all accounts. ▪ We must assume, of course, that these different aspects of his gnomic philosophy are to be unified into some coherent whole.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"full of instructive sayings," 1815, from French gnomique (18c.) and directly from Late Latin gnomicus "concerned with maxims, didactic," from Greek gnomikos , from gnome "thought, opinion, maxim, intelligence," from root of gignoskein "to come to know" ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to or containing gnomes; "gnomic verse"
Usage examples of gnomic.
Besides, as Brockle Buhn went on to explain, Mugza was the gnomic equivalent of a duke.
They were all traditional verses, mostly on cloacal subjects, but it was somehow warming to find that verse was still in regard for its gnomic or mnemonic properties.
I passed sorcerers with machetes that crackled with flames in the morning light, making sacrifices at dawn of red cocks, who poured gnomic chants on the untrodden roads.
Gnomic features were dark with anger, but Traunt Rowan merely shrugged.
Such poems are a kind of rhyming proverb, and it is a fact that definitely popular poetry is usually gnomic or sententious.
Brilliant apercus, gnomic sayings, flights of fervid eloquence, infinitely suggestive reflections – of these there is enough and to spare.