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Gnomical
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.
Gnomical
Gnomical \Gnom"ic*al\, a. [See Gnomon.]
Gnomonical.
--Boyle.
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gnomical
a. 1 gnomic 2 (context cartography English) gnomonic