draconic

adj

1. Relating to or suggestive of dragons.

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

2. (dated, rare)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.”

   “In the first months after the October Revolution Lenin was already demanding "the most decisive, draconic measures to tighten up discipline."”

3. (alt-of)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.”

   “The inference is, therefore, that they were all the property of this Nicholas de la Reynie, who was, as I understand, the gentleman specially concerned with the maintenance and execution of the Draconic laws of that epoch.”