See Also: gnomic(1)(dictionary)
gnomic(2)(dictionary)
gnomic(dictionary)

gnomic(1) (iou)



gnomic adjective1. E19.
[Greek gnomikos (perh. through French gnomique), formed as GNOME noun1: see -IC.]
Of, consisting of, or of the nature of gnomes or aphorisms; (of a writer) given to using gnomes or aphorisms. E19.
N. Frye Blake..is perhaps the finest gnomic artist in English literature. Clive James Auden has for a long time been manufacturing gnomic utterances and quiddities of his own.
Grammar. Of a tense: used to express a general truth without implication of time. M19.
gnomical adjective = GNOMIC adjective1 E17.
gnomically adverb E17.