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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Gnom·ic Gnom·ic·al a.  Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic.
    A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry.   --G. R. Lewes.
 Gnomic Poets, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Gnom·ic·al, a.  Gnomonical.
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