(comparative more gnomic, superlative most gnomic) Of, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings). G. R. Lewes a city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic...
scene i], lines 3–6: […] your reaſons at Dinner haue been ſharpe & ſententious: pleaſant without ſcurillitie, wittie without affection, audatious without...
satisfies individualized sentencing requirement […] (obsolete) To utter sententiously. 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political: Let me heare...
Appendix:Variations of "race" English Wikipedia has an article on: race Wikipedia enPR: rās, IPA(key): /ɹeɪs/ Rhymes: -eɪs From Middle English race, partially...
(“to cast a spell, enchant; to captivate”), a variant of ensorcerer, from en- (prefix meaning ‘caused’) + sorcier (“sorcerer”) (ultimately from Latin sors...
Cooper Mendenhall describes aureate terms as "words designed to achieve sententiousness and sonorous ornamentation of style principally through their being...
himself gone under politically, as little anticipated while penning this sententious answer the "sea-change" as the sectional one which was to come after...
into an encouraging smile. 'Like ter near killed a woggin,' replied he sententiously. 'Will be ashore in a brace of shakes.' […] 1887, W. H. Macy, beyond...
perhaps not to be wondered at); when serious they are a little apt to be sententious—the characters being too much addicted to "talking like a book"; and...
Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part I (Genre), page 39: The sententious lessons of Lydgate’s great work contributed to the continent-wide development...