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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Draconian \Dra*co"ni*an\, a.
Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. c.
Used especially in the phrase Draconian punishment.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

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.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

WordNet draconian
adj : of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws;
"Draconian measures"

Moby Dictionary
Tartarean , animal , anthropophagous , atrocious , barbaric , barbarous ,
beastly , bestial , bloodthirsty , bloody , bloody-minded , brutal ,
brutalized , brute , brutish , cannibalistic , cruel , cruel-hearted ,
demoniac , demoniacal , devilish , diabolic , fell , feral , ferocious ,
fiendish , fiendlike , fierce , hellish , infernal , inhuman , inhumane ,
murderous , ruthless , sadistic , sanguinary , sanguineous , satanic ,
savage , sharkish , slavering , subhuman , truculent , unchristian ,
uncivilized , unhuman , vicious , wolfish