a. [f. as next + -IC.] Of or pertaining to theogony; of the nature of theogony. So Theogonical a.
1840. trans. C. O. Müller’s Hist. Lit. Greece, xvi. § 4. 234. They show that by this time the character of the *theogonic poetry had been changed, and that Orphic ideas were in vogue.
1846. Grote, Greece, I. xvi. I. 493. The acts described in the old heroic and theogonic legends.
1880. Gladstone, in 19th Cent., April, 720. The probable forms of theogonic and anthropomorphic evolution.
1854. Milman, Lat. Chr. (1863), II. 30. To reconcile the doctrines of the Gospel with the theogonical system of Asia.
