draconic

Relating to or suggestive of dragons.

There are amongst the constellations four great draconic or serpent-like forms.

Very severe or strict; draconian.

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

The sexual instinct can hardly be changed by prescriptions; I doubt whether all laws against homosexual intercourse, even the most draconic, have ever been able to extinguish the peculiar desire of anybody born with homosexual tendencies.

Alternative letter-case form of draconic (“very severe or strict; draconian”).

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

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.