gnomic

gnomic
    adj 1: relating to or containing gnomes; "gnomic verse"
    

Gnomic \Gnom"ic\, Gnomical \Gnom"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ?: cf.
   F. gnomique. See {Gnome} maxim.]
   Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking
   detached thoughts; aphoristic.
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         A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic
         poetry.                                  --G. R. Lewes.
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   {Gnomic Poets}, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the
      sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short
      sententious precepts and reflections.
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      axiomatic, brief, brusque, clipped, close, compact, compendious,
      compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, curt, cut,
      docked, elliptic, epigrammatic, formulaic, formulistic, laconic,
      pithy, platitudinous, pointed, proverbial, pruned, pungent,
      reserved, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, succinct,
      summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point,
      truncated