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Gnomic

Gnomic Meaning & Definition
Gnomic Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Gnomic?

[adj] relating to or containing gnomes; "gnomic verse"

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Gnomic In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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