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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
GNO'MICAL, a. nomical. Sententious; containing maxims. [Little used.]
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Gnomical Gnom"ic*al, a. [See Gnomon.] Gnomonical. --Boyle.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
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. 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.
