01 a. Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic.
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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.
Phrases & compounds
Gnomic Poets —
Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections.