draconic

For some reason, the equator, the colure, the zenith and the poles were all marked out by these serpentine or draconic forms.

And he formed in his head Draconic laws which he would fain have executed upon men who lost money at play and did not pay.

His mission was to put down the insurrection in that district, and the means he employed were draconic.

Some may object that the myth may have brought about the conception of the draconic constellations.