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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gnomic adj : relating to or containing gnomes
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