Meaning

(fantasy, science fiction, rare) Of or resembling a dragon in nature..

Example Sentences

From the above it is evident that umbellic acid is identical both with the dragonic acid, according to the formula which Gerhardt assigned to it, and with the anisic acid discovered by Cahours.

The second appears in the 11th verse, and is described as having two horns like a lamb, and speaking as a dragon. The first arose up out of the sea, denoting its political or civil character. The second came up out of the earth, denoting his ecclesiastical character. These powers were united in criminal intercourse. The first Roman imperial government was in the closest governmental relations — in fact, the two governments were practically one — with Roman Catholicism; and this connection converts the moral and spiritual attributes of the church into the dragonic — persecuting— spirit of a wild beast.

The story affixed to “The Medusa’s Head” seems to refer to another lost picture, in which a dragonic beast was compounded of horrible shapes. Whether the Medusa be genuine or not, it is a remarkably horrid painting. The livid blue and red tints and the ghastly stare of the half closed eyes are certainly of powerful and weird effect, and the intense gloom over it all, unbroken except for the little light glittering on the almost metallic coils of the hair-snakes, adds to its horrible fascination.

The passage with its history is remarked to be a downward one under a Dragonic star towards a bottomless pit.

But if our beast, as to his trunk and tailm is of the earth, earthy, reptilian, aligatorian, he becomes, as to his head, a head of the mists and storm-clouds, dragonic, monstrous, allegorical.

When Should You Use Dragonic?

Use dragonic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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