Draconian

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Draconian \Dra*co"ni*an\, a.
     Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. c.
     Used especially in the phrase {Draconian punishment}.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     {Draconian code}, or {Draconian laws}, a code of laws made by


        Draco. Their measures were so severe that they were said
        to be written in letters of blood; hence, any laws of
        excessive rigor.
  
     {Draconian punishment}, punishment so severe as to seem
        excessive for the crime being punished.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Draconian
       adj : of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws;
             "Draconian measures"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "Draconian":
     Tartarean, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous,
     beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal,
     brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, cruel-hearted,
     demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, fell, feral, ferocious,
     fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, hellish, infernal, inhuman, inhumane,
     murderous, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic,
     savage, sharkish, slavering, subhuman, truculent, unchristian,
     uncivilized, unhuman, vicious, wolfish