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Adj.

[Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK]: cf. F.

gnomique

. See

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.

Adj.

[See

Gnomonical.

Boyle.

Adj.

nomical. Sententious; containing maxims. [Little used.]