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Draconic
Dra-con′ic
,Adj.
Relating to Draco, the Athenian lawgiver; or to the constellation Draco; or to dragon’s blood.
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draconic
draconic
English
Adjective
draconic (comparative more draconic, superlative most draconic)
- Draconian.
- 1818, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto 3, Stanza 64,
- […] they no land / Doomed to bewail the blasphemy of laws / Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause.
- 1932, Edvard Westermarck, Ethical Relativity, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Chapter VIII, p. 248,
- The sexual instinct can hardly be changed by prescriptions; I doubt whether all laws against homosexual intercourse, even the most draconic, have ever been able to extinguish the peculiar desire of anybody born with homosexual tendencies.
- 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (1973), translated by Thomas P. Whitney, Harper & Row, Vol. 2, Part III, pp. 9-10,
- In the first months after the October Revolution Lenin was already demanding "the most decisive, draconic measures to tighten up discipline."
- 1818, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto 3, Stanza 64,
- Related to or suggestive of dragons.