draconic

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Relating to or suggestive of dragons.

   • There are amongst the constellations four great draconic or serpent-like forms.
2. 2

   Very severe or strict

   Very severe or strict; draconian.

   • […] they no land / Doom'd to bewail the blasphemy of laws / Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause.
   • The sexual instinct can hardly be changed by prescriptions; I doubt whether all laws against homosexual intercourse, even the most draconic, have ever been able to extinguish the peculiar desire of anybody born with homosexual tendencies.
   • In the first months after the October Revolution Lenin was already demanding "the most decisive, draconic measures to tighten up discipline."
3. 3

   Alternative letter-case form of draconic (“very severe or strict

   Alternative letter-case form of draconic (“very severe or strict; draconian”).

   • […] they no land / Doom'd to bewail the blasphemy of laws / Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause.
   • The inference is, therefore, that they were all the property of this Nicholas de la Reynie, who was, as I understand, the gentleman specially concerned with the maintenance and execution of the Draconic laws of that epoch.

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