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CIDE DICTIONARY
gnomical, 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."  [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.
gnomical, a. [See Gnomon.].
     Gnomonical.  Boyle.  [1913 Webster]
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