Draconic

draconic English Adjective en draconic very severe or strict; draconian. III LXIV 37 they no land / Doom'd to bewail the blasphemy of laws / Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause. en 1860 February George Augustus Sala William Hogarth: Painter, Engraver, and Philosopher. Essays on the Man, the Work, and the Time. I.—Little Boy Hogarth. w:The Cornhill Magazine I 2 London Smith, Elder and Co.,65, Cornhill. 189 https://archive.org/details/cornhillmagazine01londuoft/page/195/mode/1up 0010-891X 1565148 Beggars, cut-purses, swindlers, tavern-bilks, broken life-guardsmen, foreign counts, native highwaymen, and some poor honest unfortunates, the victims of a Draconic law of debtor and creditor, all found their Patmos turn out to be a mere shifting quicksand. en 1902 November Arthur Conan Doyle The Leather Funnel McClure’s Magazine XX 1 New York, N.Y.; London The Samuel Sidney McClure Co. 1903 20 https://archive.org/details/mccluresmagazin16unkngoog/page/20/mode/1up 1 2637-7179 1780710 The inference is, therefore, that they were all the property of this Nicholas de la Reynie, who was, as I understand, the gentleman specially concerned with the maintenance and execution of the Draconic laws of that epoch. Derived terms en Draconically