draconically
Collocations
5ADJ.
alike, crippling, still, uncharacteristic
VERB + DRACONICALLY
chain, roared
DRACONICALLY + NOUN
ego
PREP.
about
ADV.
heavily, slightly
Definitions
adv
In a draconic (relating to or suggestive of dragons) manner.
Selenth, being the most prominent copper dragon in the Alliance, had a slightly draconically uncharacteristic ego about him, which showed from time to time and was usually brought back to measure by one of the Capital Wing dragons.
Dragons were hierarchical. The race ran on blood and lineage, and everything about family background mattered. Iampaatar was at the top of the food chain, draconically speaking.
adv
In a draconic (very severe or strict; draconian) manner.
adv
Alternative letter-case form of draconically (“in a draconic (very severe or strict; draconian) manner”).
They were alſo in their judiciall Courts equally tyrannous; the one in the Chancerie, the other in the High Commiſſion: both of them at the Councell boord, and in the Starre-chamber alike Draconically ſupercilious.
Whereas three Italians, on two different occasions, have attempted the life of the Emperor [Napoleon III], therefore he revenges himself on the French and English—by crippling still more Draconically the few liberties left to the former, and by attempting to suppress the constitutional privileges that are dear to the latter.
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6Selenth, being the most prominent copper dragon in the Alliance, had a slightly draconically uncharacteristic ego about him, which showed from time to time and was usually brought back to measure by o
WiktionaryDragons were hierarchical. The race ran on blood and lineage, and everything about family background mattered. Iampaatar was at the top of the food chain, draconically speaking.
WiktionarySulla breathed heavily and roared draconically. His mouth opened wide, and boiling water and steam rushed from his throat.
WiktionaryThey were alſo in their judiciall Courts equally tyrannous; the one in the Chancerie, the other in the High Commiſſion: both of them at the Councell boord, and in the Starre-chamber alike Draconically
WiktionaryWhereas three Italians, on two different occasions, have attempted the life of the Emperor [Napoleon III], therefore he revenges himself on the French and English—by crippling still more Draconically
WiktionaryBut Mr. [Ichabod Charles] Wright has to make good his title against [William] Cowper; and no one that knows Cowper, a true poet, manly and tender, graceful and vigorous, in his translation no less tha
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