Draconian \Dra*co"ni*an\, a.
Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. c.
Used especially in the phrase Draconian punishment.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
Draconian code, or Draconian laws, a code of laws made by
Draco. Their measures were so severe that they were said
to be written in letters of blood; hence, any laws of
excessive rigor.
Draconian punishment, punishment so severe as to seem
excessive for the crime being punished.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Draconian
adj : of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws;
"Draconian measures"
WordNet (r) 2.0
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "Draconian":
Tartarean, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous,
beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal,
brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, cruel-hearted,
demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, fell, feral, ferocious,
fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, hellish, infernal, inhuman, inhumane,
murderous, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic,
savage, sharkish, slavering, subhuman, truculent, unchristian,
uncivilized, unhuman, vicious, wolfish
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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