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   Draconian (?), a. Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. c.  Used especially in the phrase Draconian punishment.
   
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   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.
   
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