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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or suggestive of a dragon.
  2. adj. Draconian.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of or pertaining to Draco, archon of Athens in or about 621 b. c., and one of the founders of the enlightened Attic polity; or resembling in severity the code of laws said to have been established by him, in which he prescribed the penalty of death for nearly all crimes -for smaller crimes because they merited it, and for greater because he knew of no penalty more severe.
  2. Hence Rigorous: applied to any extremely severe, harsh, or oppressive laws.
  3. Relating to the constellation Draco.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Related to or suggestive of dragons.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Relating to Draco, the Athenian lawgiver; or to the constellation Draco; or to dragon's blood.

Etymologies

  1. from Latin draco, dragon (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin dracō, dracōn-, dragon; see dragon. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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