Definition of Gnomec
{ Gnom"ic (?), 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- of, or relating to gnomes
- (of a saying or aphorism) mysterious and often incomprehensible yet seemingly wise
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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