gnomical

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gnomical, a. [Gr. , fr. : cf. F. gnomique. See Gnome maxim.].

Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic. [1913 Webster]

"A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry." [1913 Webster]

Gnomic Poets, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections.

gnomical, a. [See Gnomon.].

Gnomonical. Boyle. [1913 Webster]

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