Meanings
- not comparablerarefantasyOf or resembling a dragon in nature.
The passage with its history is remarked to be a downward one under a Dragonic star towards a bottomless pit.
1889, Robert Shaw, Creator and Cosmos, Becktold & Company, page 764 more examples
From the above it is evident that umbellic acid is identical both with the dragonic acid, according to the formula which Gerhardt assigned to it, and with the anisic acid discovered by Cahours.
1846, Rosewell Messinger, Chemical Gazette, P. F Collier and Son Company, page 422The second appears in the 11th verse, and is described as having two horns like a lamb, and speaking as a dragon. The first arose up out of the sea, denoting its political or civil character. The second came up out of the earth, denoting his ecclesiastical character. These powers were united in criminal intercourse. The first Roman imperial government was in the closest governmental relations — in fact, the two governments were practically one — with Roman Catholicism; and this connection converts the moral and spiritual attributes of the church into the dragonic — persecuting— spirit of a wild beast.
1886, Henry Lyman Kellogg, Jonathan Blanchard, The Christian Cynosure, National Christian Association, page 11The story affixed to “The Medusa’s Head” seems to refer to another lost picture, in which a dragonic beast was compounded of horrible shapes. Whether the Medusa be genuine or not, it is a remarkably horrid painting. The livid blue and red tints and the ghastly stare of the half closed eyes are certainly of powerful and weird effect, and the intense gloom over it all, unbroken except for the little light glittering on the almost metallic coils of the hair-snakes, adds to its horrible fascination.
1887, John Charles Dent, Arcturus: A Canadian Journal of Literature and Life, John Charles Dent, page 2But if our beast, as to his trunk and tailm is of the earth, earthy, reptilian, aligatorian, he becomes, as to his head, a head of the mists and storm-clouds, dragonic, monstrous, allegorical.
1913, Royal Asiatic Society, The Journal of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain And Ireland 1913, P. F Collier and Son Company, page 547
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