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Nomic spelling. A. J. Ellis.

Pertaining to agronomy, of the management of farms.

The science of the distribution and management of land.

The science of the laws of the development of the human organism in relation to other organisms and to environment. -- An`thro*po*nom"ic*al (#), a.

Astronomical.

ccordance with the methods or principles of astronomy. -- As`tro*nom"ic*al*ly, adv. Astronomical clock. See under Clock. -- Astronomical day. See under Day. -- Astronomical fractions, Astronomical numbers. See under Sexagesimal.

Having the power of self-government; autonomous. Hickok.

Pertaining to the household; domestic. "In this economical misfortune [of ill-assorted matrimony.]" Milton.

With economy; with careful management; with prudence in expenditure.

wealth or material resources. See Political economy, under Political. "In politics and economics." V. Knox.

Pertaining to gastromony.

or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic. A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry. G. R. Lewes. Gnomic Poets, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections.

Gnomonical. Boyle.

In a gnomic, didactic, or sententious manner.

Opposed to pictures or images as objects of worship. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The same, or equal, in law or right; one in kind or origin; analogous; similar. Dana.

See Economical.

See Economics.

Of or relating to parelectronomy; as, the parelectronomic part of a muscle.

The science of motion; kinematics. [R.] Weisbach.