draconical

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1. Synonym of draconic (“relating to or suggestive of dragons”).

   That the dragon and his angels were caſt into the world of ſpirits, whence they are in communication with men on earth, who are in the draconical faith, n. 552, 558.

   1797, Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by J[ohn] A[ugustus] T[ulk], “Spiritual World, and the World of Spirits [mundus spiritualis, et mundus spirituum]”, in Indexes to the Apocalypse Revealed. […], London: […] R[obert] Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, page 86

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   Againſt ſuch Witneſſes therefore you may be ſure this Dragon will make war, who in this Chapter is deſcribed under one ſingle Figure of a Red Dragon, the Roman Pagan Emperours being Pontifices Maximi, as well as Caeſars. In the following Chapter this Draconical power is divided into two, there being now ſuch a ſtate in the Roman Empire, as that there may be ſaid to be Imperium in Imperio, the Papal or Sacerdotal Hierarchy diſtinct from the Cæſarean Majeſty and Power.

   1680, Henry More, chapter XII, in Apocalypsis Apocalypseos; or The Revelation of St John the Divine Unveiled. […], London: […] J. M. for J[ohn] Martyn, and W. Kettilby, […], →OCLC, page 122

   On the basis of U. S. Weather Bureau Historic Weather Maps, the author examined the possible influence of long lunar periods (i.e., the synodical and draconical lunar months) on atmospheric pressure oscillations.

   1956 May, “Pava, R. (Bucharest), Adalékok a légköri árapály kutatásához. [Contribution to the study of atmospheric tides.]”, in Malcolm Rigby, editor, Meteorological Abstracts and Bibliography, volume 7, number 5, Lancaster, Pa.: American Meteorological Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 594

   Synonyms: draconic

comparative more draconical · superlative most draconical · alternative Draconical

1. Synonym of draconic (“very severe or strict; draconian”).

   Synonyms: draconic

comparative more Draconical · superlative most Draconical

1. Alternative letter-case form of draconical (“very severe or strict; draconian”).

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   And in a Parliament held at Weſtminſter was eſtabliſhed (a) the act of the ſix articles, which was named the bloudy ſtatute, and the whip of ſix ſtrings; which drew ſo much bloud upon poor Chriſtians, and whereof Auricular Confeſſion was one of the ſtrings. The procurer of that Draconical law, together with the occaſion thereof is particularly deſcribed by our Eccleſiaſtical Annaliſt Mr John Fox; whoever was the chief doer therein, Eccleſiaftical perſons were the chief ſufferers.

   1657, [Thomas Aylesbury], “An Historical Relation of the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England Concerning Confession, and the Practice Thereof by Some of the Chief Members in the Same”, in A Treatise of the Confession of Sinne, […], London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond] for Andr[ew] Crook, […], →OCLC, “Of Penitential Confession” section, page 329

   No, these are not imaginary grievances so sneeringly alluded to by the above (liberal and Christian?) correspondent, but real grievances, which penetrate to the hearts and souls of the sufferers, and cry shame on the land calling itself Christian, which can perpetuate or permit such Draconical and inhuman, and, above all, unchristian laws.

   1853 November 4, Ed[itor], “Foreign Intelligence”, in The Jewish Chronicle, volume X, number 5 (394 overall), London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39, column 1

   But there is no question of politics, I am told, but of murder. Of murder? Indeed! Where, then, was murder committed? Where was it even attempted? The accusation itself dares not utter the word of a ‘commencement of execution.[’] What they talk of is a plot, a conspiracy (complot), a different thing altogether, since the most Draconical law has embodied the principle that, as long as no real attempt is made, the conspirators may have altered their mind.

   1857 July 31, [Alexandre Auguste] Ledru Rollin, quotee, “Ledru Rollin and Louis Napoleon”, in Butler’s South Bucks Free Press, Wycombe and Maidenhead Journal, and Weekly Advertiser for the Wycombe Railway District, volume I, number 33, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, →OCLC, page [2], column 5

   At the opening of Parliament and the coming to power of Zaghloul, a Draconical law was promulgated, essentially directed against the workers’ organisations. Whilst the country as a whole directed all its forces towards liberty and independence from the English yoke, this law denies the right of the workers to meet in defence of their elementary interests, and interdicts the most sacred right of the workers, viz.: the right to strike.

   1924, The Communist Review, volume 5, London: Communist Party of Great Britain, →OCLC, page 106, column 2