draconism

Noun

dragonism (uncountable)

1. (archaic) watchful guardianship
   • Those who pique themselves on "l'eloquence du billet;" those fair Scribblerinas just emancipated from boarding-school restraint, or from the dragonism of their governesses, just beginning to pour out their pretty souls in the refined intercourse of sentimental, confidential, ineffable...1826, Caroline Anne Southey, Solitary Hour
2. Despotism; the leadership of a tyrant.
   • Fix your eye, then, as I attempted to do, on the places and time when the Puritans were driven to extremities by the persucutions of Jesuits, [a church with temporal power,] and other enemies of the pure, evangelical truth; and see to what region fro the body of the best of that people , did in...1856, Joseph Frederic Berg, The Stone and the Image, Or, the American Republic, the Bane and Ruin of Despotism, page 215
3. (obsolete) Nonsense; unrealistic ideas.
   • It will be a last effort in behalf of a darling cause. Dragonism, infidelity, and false religion, will now be found, each making its last effort!1837, Ethan Smith, Key to the Revelation, page 300
4. Dragon lore.
   • So that he, as the god Janus of pagan dragonism, sitteth in the more modern temple of Tau-tau-r-ism, shewing himself, and declaring to the world, that he is god (Janus) of the last dispensation, to whom the dragon or devil gave his chair, possessing the keys of the Dor's, Thor's or Tor's hole or...1858, John Bull, The Treasury of Light, page 440