Draconic

Draconic (comparative more Draconic, superlative most Draconic)

1. Alternative letter-case form of draconic (“very severe or strict; draconian”).
   • 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXIV, page 37:

     […] they no land / Doom'd to bewail the blasphemy of laws / Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause.

   • 1860 February, [George Augustus Sala], “William Hogarth: Painter, Engraver, and Philosopher. Essays on the Man, the Work, and the Time. I.—Little Boy Hogarth.”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume I, number 2, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 189:

     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.

   • 1902 November, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Leather Funnel”, in McClure’s Magazine, volume XX, number 1, New York, N.Y.; London: The S[amuel] S[idney] McClure Co., published 1903, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 1:

     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.