See dragonic on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1886, Henry Lyman Kellogg, Jonathan Blanchard, The Christian Cynosure, National Christian Association, page 11:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1887, John Charles Dent, Arcturus: A Canadian Journal of Literature and Life, John Charles Dent, page 2:",
"text": "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.",
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"text": "The passage with its history is remarked to be a downward one under a Dragonic star towards a bottomless pit.",
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