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gnomic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Gnomic Poets, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections.
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" (see gnostic). English gnome meant "short, pithy statement of general truth" (1570s). Gnomical is attested from 1610s.
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.
WordNet
adj. relating to or containing gnomes; "gnomic verse"
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
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.