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dracontic

dracontic is the alternative form of draconic.

Meaning of draconic

Adjective (1)

draconic (comparative more draconic, superlative most draconic)

  1. Relating to or suggestive of dragons.
    • There are amongst the constellations four great draconic or serpent-like forms.1908, E. Walter Maunder, chapter V, in The Astronomy of the Bible, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, page 196

Adjective (2)

draconic (comparative more draconic, superlative most draconic)

  1. (dated, rare) Very severe or strict; draconian.
    • […] they no land / Doom'd to bewail the blasphemy of laws / Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause.1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXIV, page 37
    Synonyms:
    draconical

Questions about dracontic

What is dracontic the alternative form of?
Dracontic is the alternative form of draconic.

Words near dracontic in the dictionary

  1. draconitic months
  2. draconologist
  3. draconologists
  4. draconology
  5. dracontiasis
  6. dracontic
  7. dracontine
  8. dracontium
  9. dracontology
  10. dracos
  11. Dracos in Leather Pants

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