gnomical

• HYPHEN: gno=mi=cal

CIDE DICTIONARY

gnomical, a. [Gr. , fr. : cf. F. gnomique. See Gnome maxim.].

 Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic.  [1913 Webster]
"A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry."  [1913 Webster]

Gnomic Poets, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections.

gnomical, a. [See Gnomon.].

 Gnomonical.  Boyle.  [1913 Webster]