2 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Gnomical \Gnom"ic*al\, a. [See {Gnomon}.] Gnomonical. --Boyle. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry. --G. R. Lewes. [1913 Webster] {Gnomic Poets}, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections. [1913 Webster]
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