Gnom"ic*al, a. [See Gnomon.]
Gnomonical. Boyle.
{ 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.