a. Also 8 -ick. [f. as prec. + -IC.]
1. Ascribed to, originating with, Solomon.
1722. G. Mackenzie, Writers Scots Nation, III. 517. This is a large Print…. Upon the Top is the Blessed Virgin…. Then follow Seven Columns…. In the 5th Column are … the Solomonick; the Noachick Alphabets.
1873. Our Work in Palestine, ix. (1874), 160. Solomon’s Temple, then, was a rectangle…. Wilson’s Arch would, therefore, be Solomonic.
1883. A. Roberts, O. T. Revision, vi. 126. As … the book was written in Greek, the idea of its Solomonic authorship must at once be set aside.
2. Characteristic of Solomon; suggestive of the wisdom of Solomon.
1857. Dickens, Dorrit, I. xiii. This sentiment, in itself almost Solomonic.
1861. Sat. Rev., 30 Nov., 563. That Solomonic wisdom which is better than … silver.
1876. Tinsley’s Mag., XIX. 6. With a Solomonic shake of her head.
So † Solomonical a. Obs.
1530. Lyndesay, Test. Papyngo, 2. Suppose I had … sapience more than Salamonicall.
157[?]. Buchanan, Lett., in Wks. (S.T.S.), 57. I most neidis præfer the rude Scottis wyt of capitane Cocburne to your inglis solomonical sapience.
