Draconically

draconically English Etymology From en Draconic ally or en Draconical ly<id:adverbial>. Adverb en draconically in a draconic very severe or strict; draconian manner. en 1641 A True Description, or Rather a Parallel betweene Cardinall Wolsey, Arch-Bishop of York, and William Laud, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury [London?] 6 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-coppy-of-a-letter-se_1641/page/n121/mode/1up 84776778 They were alſo in their judiciall Courts equally tyrannous; the one in the Chancerie, the other in the High Commiſſion: both of them at the Councell boord, and in the Starre-chamber alike Draconically ſupercilious. en 20 February 1858 Napoleonic Logic Punch, or The London Charivari XXXIV London Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, and sold by all booksellers. 1858. London Bradbury and Evans,printers, Whitefriars. 77 https://archive.org/details/sim_punch_1858_34/page/77/mode/1up 1 0033-4278 1714437 Whereas three Italians, on two different occasions, have attempted the life of the Emperor Napoleon III, therefore he revenges himself on the French and English—by crippling still more Draconically the few liberties left to the former, and by attempting to suppress the constitutional privileges that are dear to the latter. en 1862 June Homeric Translations Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country LXV CCCXC London Parker, Son, and Bourn,West Strand. London: Savill and Edwards, printers, Chandos Street, Covent Garden. 779 https://archive.org/details/sim_frasers-magazine_1862-06_65_390/page/779/mode/1up 1 5899443 But Mr. Ichabod Charles Wright has to make good his title against William Cowper; and no one that knows Cowper, a true poet, manly and tender, graceful and vigorous, in his translation no less than in his original works, will doubt that the task is likely to be a hard one. Professor Matthew Arnold, a sufficiently competent judge, has already pronounced that Mr. Wright has failed—that he simply reproduces Cowper’s manner, and so has, as it is somewhat Draconically expressed, ‘no right to exist.’ en 16 January 1869 Public Indecencies The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art XXVII 690 London Published at the office, Southampton Street, Strand. 1869. London: Printed by Spottiswoode and Co.,New Street Square and Parliament Street 78 https://archive.org/details/sim_saturday-review-uk_the-saturday-review_1869-01-16_27_690/page/78/mode/1up 1 0950-9852 1765055 A few years ago we heard of the puritication of the Haymarket and its purlieus. We were assured that in the midnight hours Coventry Street was as decorous as Great Ormond Street at noonday. Still later we were assure that the night houses in those pleasant shades were quite reformed and cleansed. And we believed that all this was quite true. The picture was engaging; the results Arcadian; and the character of the law—sufficiently strict, yet not Draconically austere—was admirably vindicated. en 1872 w:Henry Kingsley I Go to School The Harveys.By Henry Kingsley, Author of “Hetty,” “Old Margaret,” “Geoffry Hamlyn,” “Ravenshoe,” Etc. Etc. In Two Volumes. I London Tinsley Bros.,18, Catherine Street, Strand. 61–62 https://archive.org/details/harveys01king/page/62/mode/1up 10478559 I don’t know why I was affected, but I was. I suspect that people like myself are easily affected, and that in the perfectly governed state of the future we shall all be Draconically put to death, and leave the virtuous citizens to bore one another until their time comes. en 1876 Francis William Newman Moral Theism. From The ‘Langham Magazine.’ Miscellanies !II (Essays, Tracts or Addresses Moral and Religious) London Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.,1, Paternoster Square. Nottingham; Stevenson, Bailey, and Smith, printers. 1887 321 https://archive.org/details/miscellanies02newmuoft/miscellanies02newmuoft/page/321/mode/1up 46880087 If children are taught that they are the creatures of mere impulse, and that self-controul is impossible, they will follow impulse with no effort at self-controul; and when “I could not help it” is a current excuse for misconduct, it justifies the retort, “Then I cannot help beating you.” Law must and will become Draconically severe, when Fatalism explodes the doctrine of Self-controul. en 1891 George Vallis Garland The Three Angels The Practical Teaching of the Apocalypse London; New York, N.Y. Longmans, Green, and Co.and New York: 15 East 16th Street chapter XXI (The Lamb on the Mount Zion—Rev. xiv.) 324 https://archive.org/details/practicalteachin00garl/page/324/mode/1up 536536 He is warned that ‘he will be tormented in fire and brimstone in the sight of the holy angels and in the sight of the Lamb.’ It is also added that ‘the smoke of their torment is ascending for ages of ages: and that those have no rest day and night, who are worshipping the Beast and his Image, nor any one who is receiving the mark of his name.’ The warning reveals the truth that, whoever are thus worshipping the Draconically inspired world power and its lawless representative Imperial Ruler, are already drinking of the wine of the fury of God. en 1900 w:George Saintsbury ‘Faultlessness’ A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts to the Present DayBy George Saintsbury, M.A. Oxon.; Hon. LL.D. Aberd.; Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh; In Three Volumes !I (Classical and Mediæval Criticism) New York, N.Y. Dodd, Mead, and Co.; Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons book II (Latin Criticism), chapter II (The Contemporaries of Quintilian) 285 https://archive.org/details/cu31924026927933/page/285/mode/1up 8405387 In nothing, perhaps, is this tendency of ancient criticism better shown than in its attitude to the question of Faultlessness. Of course, on this question there were two parties, with many subdivisions in each. There were the extreme classics of that classic time, the wooden persons of whom Martial tells us, for whom it was enough if a thing was not “correct,” to whom a fault was a fault—indelible, incompensable, to be judged off-hand and Draconically. en 9 August 1905 w:Sri Aurobindo On a Proposed Examination for Teachers The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo 1 (Early Cultural Writings) Pondicherry Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department 2003 appendix 1 (Baroda Speeches and Reports), “Opinions Written as Acting Principal” section 749 https://archive.org/details/early-cultural-writings-sri-aurobindo/page/749/mode/1up 9788170584964 Rule 10. This rule is Draconically harsh. Removal ought on no account to be made the penalty of a Departmental Examination; the ordinary principle that the passing of the Examination will count in promotion is quite sufficient. en 1937 w:Alfred Vagts Parliaments and Preparedness A History of Militarism: Romance and Realities of a Profession New York, N.Y. William Warder Norton & Company, Inc, part IV (Post-War Militarization of Society), chapter XII (Totalitarian Militarism) 451 https://archive.org/details/historyofmilitar0000alfr_u9s9/page/451/mode/1up 569972 Not only are anti-military crimes and misdemeanors strictly dealt with, but officers are members of the high Volksgerichtshof before which, in a Star Chamber procedure of secrecy, cases of treason, attacks on the Führer and so on, are adjudicated and punished as Draconically as by a military court in war time. en 1938 Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger Government in the Confucian Ideology Government in Republican China McGraw-Hill Studies in Political Science New York, N.Y.; London McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1st part (Movements), chapter I (Confucianism) 18–19 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.7106/page/n33/mode/1up 2280948 An official, although he might value his power, was regarded in the society at large almost as much for what he was as for the dignity with which the office invested him. This arose from his peculiar role, in which his function was to provide a model of propriety in his private and public life rather than to interfere in the lives of others. Interference, to be sure, occurred—sharply, Draconically, directed more against the social group of the offender than against the offender himself, on the theory that it was the function of the group to keep its members in line with the common-sense traditions. en 1942 Esmé Wingfield-Stratford The Soldier Churchill: The Making of a Hero London w:Victor Gollancz Ltd 1 35 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175832/page/n31/mode/1up 1286292 The callow subaltern who, when he might be out in the open air, or even partaking with his brother officers in such relaxation as they (though not perhaps Mrs. Laura Ormiston Chant) might prescribe as the proper complement to such activities, spent his time fugging indoors with fat tomes, probably by Germans, on military theory, or in the study of what, at public schools, was branded as “stinks”, would need to be a conspicuously good fellow and efficient sportsman not to be put down—perhaps in the painfully literal sense of the horse-trough—as an outsider and a prig. Indeed, so inviolate was the cult of genteel amateurishness, that professional topics, or “shop”, were Draconically tabooed in conversation off parade. en 1948 summer w:Franz Alexander The Price of Peace Child Study: A Quarterly Journal of Parent Education New York, N.Y. Child Study Association of America, Inc. 72–73 https://archive.org/details/child-study-a-journal-of-parent-education_summer-1948_25_3/page/73/mode/1up 923231139 The instability of totalitarian nations comes primarily from the fact that in such countries the individual members have no freedom of expression and action. They must be restrained by terror and violence. They constitute therefore a permanent menace to their neighbors. Their internal peace can be preserved only with spoils obtained by subjugation of other nations or by terror. Every form of hostility, even constructive criticism directed against leadership, is Draconically suppressed. en 1949 Werner Knop Atomic Age Prowling Russia’s Forbidden Zone: A Secret Journey into Soviet Germany A Borzoi Book New York, N.Y. Alfred Abraham Knopf, Inc. 137–138 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.177730/page/n156/mode/1up 1325464 The uranium miners work up to twelve hours a day, urged on by Soviet convict soldiers, who act as overseers, and who themselves are punished Draconically if their charges fail to meet the daily norms. en 1951 April F. Beck pseudonym; W. Godin pseudonym w:Eric Mosbacher; David Porter The Iron Commissar Russian Purge and the Extraction of Confession New York, N.Y. The Viking Press 31 https://archive.org/details/russianpurgeextr0000fbec/page/31/mode/1up 1468220 An interesting example was provided in 1937 of how far the government could go in genuinely sounding public opinion without endangering its own position. The subject chosen for the experiment was characteristically a nonpolitical one, lying outside the main stream of critical questions of the day. It was the draft of the law, subsequently Draconically imposed, forbidding abortion, which had hitherto been permitted under official auspices in cases not considered dangerous. en 1954 winter H. Brand East Germany: The Uprising of June 17 Dissent: A Quarterly of Socialist Opinion 1 1 New York, N.Y. Dissent Publishing Association III 40 https://archive.org/details/sim_dissent_dissent_winter-1954_1_1/page/40/mode/1up 0012-3846 935678 At the base of the trouble was the regime’s policy of collectivization of agriculture, decided upon by the SED conference in summer 1952. This, combined with increased delivery quotas, non-fulfillment of which was Draconically punished, caused a great exodus from the land. en 1964 w:James Gould Cozzens The Guns of the Enemy Children and Others New York, N.Y. Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. part II (Away at School) 167 https://archive.org/details/childrenother00cozz/page/167/mode/1up 64-22665 282479 Potts was the one who reported, and Doctor Holt rewarded him, Draconically, by informing Potts that he was no longer a member of the school. en 1990 1968 w:Robert Conquest Nations in Torment The Great Terror: A Reassessment revised New York, N.Y.; Oxford, Oxfordshire w:Oxford University Press 1991 book II (The Yezhov Years) 283 https://archive.org/details/greatterror00robe/page/283/mode/1up 0-19507-132-8 Those who came before a court were judged according to the Criminal Code, whose long Article 58 covered all forms of remotely political crime. This article was broad enough, or so it might have been thought, to encompass anyone the NKVD wished to “repress.” And it had long been Draconically interpreted. Uncapitalized in the 1st edition (1968). en 1992 w:Abba Eban Palestine in World War II Personal Witness: Israel Through My Eyes New York, N.Y. G. P. Putnam’s Sons 68 https://archive.org/details/personalwitnessi00eban/page/68/mode/1up 0-399-13589-8 It was Churchill who coined the words “squalid war” to describe the events of 1945 to 1947. All the hated restrictions on Jewish immigration, whether “legal” or “illegal,” were Draconically applied. en 2000 Gerd Fuchs Heather Hanford The accordion The Emigrants: From Hamburg to the New World Hamburg Petersen Verlag 115 https://archive.org/details/emigrantsfromham0000gerd/page/115/mode/1up 3-00-005998-9 However, there were not many opportunities to play or discover anything new in the overcrowded huts; on top of that, the German officials were Draconically strict. This meant they soon grew bored. en 10 November 2000 Mary Brownfield Breaching Carmel River mouth no longer just about a guy and a shovel The Carmel Pine Cone 86 45 Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif. 13A https://archive.org/details/ccarm_005480/page/n12/mode/1up 2 28146037 Curtis Weeks added that the county must show its commitment to establishing permanent guidelines for breaching the river mouth. “As long as we work with the agencies, I don’t think they’ll come in and Draconically regulate us,” Dave Potter said.