{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_;: cf. F. gnomique. See Gnome maxim. ] Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic. [ 1913 Webster ]

A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry. G. R. Lewes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gnomic Poets, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Gnomon. ] Gnomonical. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a gnomic, didactic, or sententious manner.