gnomic's Usage Examples:

But in its second aspect it touched divination and astrology, of which Galen' says that the physiognomical part is the greater, and this aspect of the subject ' bulked largely in the fanciful literature of the middle ages.

gnomic statement obscures the vexed question of the epistemological role of literary works qua literary works.

The preparation in monochrome for this picture, a work of extraordinary power both of design and physiognomical expression, is preserved at the Uffizi, but the painting itself was never carried out, and after Leonardo's failure to fulfil his contract Filippino Lippi had once more to be employed in his place.

The naive and fragmentary precepts of conduct, which are everywhere the earliest manifestation of nascent moral reflection, are a noteworthy element in the gnomic poetry of the 7th and 6th centuries B.

gnomic utterance ' Free enterprise works ' .

In the folk-lore of Scotland his name is associated with numerous fragments of verse of a gnomic and prophetic character.

gnomic remarks I didn't understand.

In this passage he deprecates current physiognomical speculations, saying that he might criticize them but feared to waste time and become tedious over them.

and Liber proverbiorum), one of the Wisdom books of the Old Testament (see Wisdom Literature) and the principal representative in the Old Testament of gnomic thought.