Draconian

draconian English Etymology From en la Dracō (stem Dracōn-) en ian.Draconian adj 2367426340 Pronunciation en /drəˈkəʊni.ən/ UK en /drəˈkoʊni.ən/ GA en əʊniən 4 Adjective Of or relating to Draco, the first legislator of Athens in Ancient Greece. en Drakonian en F. G. Kenyon Αθηναιων Πολιτεια: Aristotle on the Constitution of Athens 1892 12 As to the details of the Draconian constitution, it is certainly surprising to find so many institutions and offices referred to, which had hitherto been only known to exist at a later date. en w:John Clark Ridpath Great Races of Mankind: An Account of the Ethnic Origin, Primitive Estate, Early Migrations, Social Evolution, and Present Conditions and Promise of the Principal Families of MenTogether with a Preliminary Inquiry on the Time, Place and Manner of the Beginning III Cincinnati, Ohio The Jones Brothers Publishing Company 1893 154 Not a line of the Draconian laws has been preserved in their original form. en University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register 1918 348 Aristotle, Constit., 3, 6 (speaking of the pre-Draconian age): en Frank N[orthen] Magill; E. G. Weltin Great Events from History: Ancient and Medieval Series I (4000 - 1 B.C.) Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Salem Press, Incorporated 1972 155 https://archive.org/details/great-events-from-history_1972_1/page/155/mode/1up 72-86347 The board of fifty-one “jurors” mentioned in connection with the code seems, in Adcock’s opinion, to constitute a new Draconian court. en Edwin Carawan Rhetoric and the Law of Draco Oxford Clarendon Press 1998 2004 91 0-19-815086-5 This table was probably a Solonian preface or preamble to the Draconian laws: its provisions embody the changes that followed from Solon’s reforms. en draconian. en 1839 w:Edgar Allan Poe http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2148/2148-h/2148-h.htm#link2H_4_0018 William Wilson This reverend man, with countenance so demurely benign, with robes so glossy and so clerically flowing, with wig so minutely powdered, so rigid and so vast,—could this be he who, of late, with sour visage, and in snuffy habiliments, administered, ferule in hand, the Draconian laws of the academy? 1887, David John Falconer Newall, The Highlands of India II: Field Sports and Travel in India, sect. i, ch. iv, p. 49: en Cow killing in Cashmere is punished as a worse crime than homicide! Travellers to Cashmere in those days — entering the valley by the Shupeyon route — will perhaps remember the skeleton of a man hanging in rusty chains from a prominent bough of the first large tree which met the eye on emerging from the Heerpore pass. That wretch was hanged for vaccicide…a terrible example of Maharajah Golaub Sing’s Draconian laws! en w:William Herbert Herries Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Bill New Zealand. Parliamentary Debates. Fourth Session, Sixteenth Parliament House of Representatives Wellington John Mackay, government printer 6 August 1908 144 188 https://books.google.com/books?id=CvELAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA188 1 191255532 [T]o enact a Draconian law that if anybody who does not know anything about the subject thinks when you are trying to get a bullock into a truck when he will not go you are acting cruelly he can inform the police, and you can be arrested there and then and hauled up before a Justice of the Peace. en December 21 2007 Rebecca Smith Gordon Brown 'to force GPs to work evenings' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1573270/Gordon-Brown-to-force-GPs-to-work-evenings.html Telegraph 27 Nov 2018 UK "They have effectively put a gun to our head and said if we don't accept their proposal they will impose a more Draconian contract." https://web.archive.org/web/20251020155005/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1573270/Gordon-Brown-to-force-GPs-to-work-evenings.html 20 October 2025 en 2020 April 8 Howard Johnston East-ended? When the ECML was at risk Rail 65 Perhaps lessons had already been learned from the Draconian infrastructure cuts on the Waterloo-Exeter route. Derived terms en Draconianism Draconianly References en eponyms