WORD OF THE DAY: DRACONIC

DRACONIC
 
ADJ.
1. pert. to a dragon; of the nature of a dragon ...1680
2. pertaining to or characteristic of Draco, archon at Athens in 621 B.C., or the severe code of laws said to have been established by him;
rigorous, harsh, severe, cruel ...1708

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin draco, -ōnem, from Greek δράκων (dragon); also from the Greek personal name Δράκων, (Draco)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1680 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...He was cast out into the earth, and his Angels were cast out with him: This appearance thus in Heaven signified the destruction of the Em­pire as Draconick and Idolatrous, that none of that foul stamp should be in high places of the Empire, but such as were professed Christians..."
From: Apocalypsis Apocalypseos; or The Revelation of St. John the Divine Unveiled
- Henry More