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draconical

draconical adjective: synonym of draconic (“relating to or suggestive of dragons”).

Adjective (1)

draconical (comparative more draconical, superlative most draconical)

  1. Synonym of draconic (“relating to or suggestive of dragons”).
    • Againſt ſuch Witneſſes therefore you may be ſure this Dragon will make war, who in this Chapter is deſcribed under one ſingle Figure of a Red Dragon, the Roman Pagan Emperours being Pontifices Maximi, as well as Caeſars. In the following Chapter this Draconical power is divided into two, there...1680, Henry More, chapter XII, in Apocalypsis Apocalypseos; or The Revelation of St John the Divine Unveiled. […], London: […] J. M. for J[ohn] Martyn, and W. Kettilby, […], →OCLC, page 122
    • That the dragon and his angels were caſt into the world of ſpirits, whence they are in communication with men on earth, who are in the draconical faith, n. 552, 558.1797, Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by J[ohn] A[ugustus] T[ulk], “Spiritual World, and the World of Spirits [mundus spiritualis, et mundus spirituum]”, in Indexes to the Apocalypse Revealed. […]...
    Synonyms:
    draconic

Adjective (2)

draconical (comparative more draconical, superlative most draconical)

  1. Synonym of draconic (“very severe or strict; draconian”).
    Synonyms:
    draconic

Adjective (3) capitalized: Draconical

Draconical (comparative more Draconical, superlative most Draconical)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of draconical (“very severe or strict; draconian”).
    • And in a Parliament held at Weſtminſter was eſtabliſhed (a) the act of the ſix articles, which was named the bloudy ſtatute, and the whip of ſix ſtrings; which drew ſo much bloud upon poor Chriſtians, and whereof Auricular Confeſſion was one of the ſtrings. The procurer of that Draconical law...1657, [Thomas Aylesbury], “An Historical Relation of the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England Concerning Confession, and the Practice Thereof by Some of the Chief Members in the Same”...
    • No, these are not imaginary grievances so sneeringly alluded to by the above (liberal and Christian?) correspondent, but real grievances, which penetrate to the hearts and souls of the sufferers, and cry shame on the land calling itself Christian, which can perpetuate or permit such Draconical and...1853 November 4, Ed[itor], “Foreign Intelligence”, in The Jewish Chronicle, volume X, number 5 (394 overall), London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39, column 1

Synonyms of draconical

Forms of draconical

comparativemore draconical
superlativemost draconical
alternative formDraconical
comparativemore Draconical
superlativemost Draconical

Origin of draconical

From Latin dracō (“dragon”, stem dracōn-) + -ical.

From Latin Dracō (stem Dracōn-) + -ical, after the Athenian lawmaker Draco, known for making harsh laws.

Words formed from draconical

Questions about draconical

What does draconical mean?
Draconical means synonym of draconic (“relating to or suggestive of dragons”).
What part of speech is draconical?
Draconical is an adjective.

Words near draconical in the dictionary

  1. draconians
  2. draconic
  3. draconic chart
  4. draconic month
  5. draconic months
  6. draconical
  7. draconically
  8. draconicide
  9. Draconid
  10. Draconids
  11. draconiform

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