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gnomic
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gnomic may refer to: Gnomic aspect , a grammatical mood or tense expressing a general truth Gnomic will , a concept in Eastern Orthodox theology Gnomic poetry , a poetic form A Gnome (rhetoric) or gnomic saying
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings). 2 (context of a saying or aphorism English) mysterious and often incomprehensible yet seemingly wise.
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.
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" ...
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.