Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Gnomic \Gnom"ic\, Gnomical \Gnom"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ?: cf.
   F. gnomique. See {Gnome} maxim.]
   Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, 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.

Source : WordNet®

gnomic
     adj : relating to or containing gnomes; "gnomic verse"