English

Adjective

draconic ‎(comparative more draconic, superlative most draconic)

1. Draconian.
   • 1818, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto 3, Stanza 64,

     […] they no land / Doomed to bewail the blasphemy of laws / Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause.

   • 1932, Edvard Westermarck, Ethical Relativity, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Chapter VIII, p. 248,

     The sexual instinct can hardly be changed by prescriptions; I doubt whether all laws against homosexual intercourse, even the most draconic, have ever been able to extinguish the peculiar desire of anybody born with homosexual tendencies.

   • 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (1973), translated by Thomas P. Whitney, Harper & Row, Vol. 2, Part III, pp. 9-10,

     In the first months after the October Revolution Lenin was already demanding "the most decisive, draconic measures to tighten up discipline."

2. Related to or suggestive of dragons.
   • 1908, E. Walter Maunder, The Astronomy of the Bible, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, Chapter V, p. 196,

     There are amongst the constellations four great draconic or serpent-like forms.

See also

• draconian
• draconic month
• dragonish

Anagrams

• cancroid