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draconically

draconically adverb: in a draconic (relating to or suggestive of dragons) manner.

Adverb (1)

draconically (comparative more draconically, superlative most draconically)

  1. In a draconic (relating to or suggestive of dragons) manner.
    • Selenth, being the most prominent copper dragon in the Alliance, had a slightly draconically uncharacteristic ego about him, which showed from time to time and was usually brought back to measure by one of the Capital Wing dragons.2013 June 12, J. Michael Flück, “Dragon Council”, in Dragon Alliance: Dark Storm, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 56
    • Dragons were hierarchical. The race ran on blood and lineage, and everything about family background mattered. Iampaatar was at the top of the food chain, draconically speaking.2017, Yasmine Galenorn, “Smoke and Mirrors”, in Otherworld Tales, volume 1, Kirkland, Wash.: Nightqueen Enterprises LLC, →ISBN

Adverb (2)

draconically (comparative more draconically, superlative most draconically)

  1. In a draconic (very severe or strict; draconian) manner.
    Synonyms:
    draconianly

Adverb (3) capitalized: Draconically

Draconically (comparative more Draconically, superlative most Draconically)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of draconically (“in a draconic (very severe or strict; draconian) manner”).
    • They were alſo in their judiciall Courts equally tyrannous; the one in the Chancerie, the other in the High Commiſſion: both of them at the Councell boord, and in the Starre-chamber alike Draconically ſupercilious.1641, A True Description, or Rather a Parallel betweene Cardinall Wolsey, Arch-Bishop of York, and William Laud, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, [London?], →OCLC, page 6
    • Whereas three Italians, on two different occasions, have attempted the life of the Emperor [Napoleon III], therefore he revenges himself on the French and English—by crippling still more Draconically the few liberties left to the former, and by attempting to suppress the constitutional privileges...1858 February 20, “Napoleonic Logic”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume XXXIV, London: […] Bradbury and Evans, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 77, column 1

Synonyms of draconically

Forms of draconically

comparativemore draconically
superlativemost draconically
alternative formDraconically
comparativemore Draconically
superlativemost Draconically

Origin of draconically

From draconic + -ally or draconical + -ly, from Latin dracō (“dragon”).

From draconic + -ally or draconical + -ly, from Latin Dracō (“name of an Athenian lawgiver”).

From Draconic + -ally or Draconical + -ly.

Questions about draconically

What does draconically mean?
Draconically means in a draconic (relating to or suggestive of dragons) manner.
What part of speech is draconically?
Draconically is an adverb.

Words near draconically in the dictionary

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

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