Gnomical

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

  Gnomical \Gnom"ic*al\, a. [See {Gnomon}.]
     Gnomonical. --Boyle.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Gnomic \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.
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           A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic
           poetry.                                  --G. R. Lewes.
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     {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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