Definition of "dragonism"
dragonism
noun
uncountable
(archaic) watchful guardianship
Quotations
Those who pique themselves on "l'eloquence du billet;" those fair Scribblerinas just emancipated from boarding-school restraint, or from the dragonism of their governesses, just beginning to pour out their pretty souls in the refined intercourse of sentimental, confidential, ineffable correspondence, […]
1826, Caroline Anne Southey, Solitary Hour
Those who pique themselves on the elegant style of their billets, or those fair scriblerinas just emancipated from boarding school restraints, or the dragonism of their governess, just beginning to taste the refined enjoyments of sentimental, confidential, soul-breathing correspondence with some Angelina, Seraphina, or Laura Matilda; to indite beautiful little notes, with long tailed letters, upon vellum paper, with pink margins, sealed with sweet mottoes, and dainty devices, the whole deliciously perfumed with musk and attar of roses;
1848, William Holmes McGuffey, “On Letter Writing”, in McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Fourth Reader, page 279
An American sectarian, who has always lived within the high walls and in the close atmosphere of our intense sect-life here, and has always been accustomed to the dragonism of sect-authority and sect-jealousy, —is utterly amazed when for the first time he looks over his native sect-walls and comes to see the freedom of thought and utterance within the old churches of Europe.
1870, The Millennial Harbinger - Volume 41, page 423
Despotism; the leadership of a tyrant.
Quotations
Fix your eye, then, as I attempted to do, on the places and time when the Puritans were driven to extremities by the persucutions of Jesuits, [a church with temporal power,] and other enemies of the pure, evangelical truth; and see to what region fro the body of the best of that people , did in fact flee from the face of the Papal dragon, [and those who exerted the spiritual, selfish tyranny denoted by dragonism,] in some far distant realm.
1856, Joseph Frederic Berg, The Stone and the Image, Or, the American Republic, the Bane and Ruin of Despotism, page 215
(obsolete) Nonsense; unrealistic ideas.
Quotations
These doctrines, of which the inspire apostle is admitted as the "chief corner-stone", he characterizes as "Dragonism", a "congeries of falsities", and as "favoring the natural and sensual man".
1862 April, Edward A Lawrence, “Swedenborg's Theory of the Divine-Human”, in Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood, editor, American Presbyterian and Theological Review, page 272
Quotations
So that he, as the god Janus of pagan dragonism, sitteth in the more modern temple of Tau-tau-r-ism, shewing himself, and declaring to the world, that he is god (Janus) of the last dispensation, to whom the dragon or devil gave his chair, possessing the keys of the Dor's, Thor's or Tor's hole or hall, which open and shut the gate or way leading from light immortal, eternal glory, to the regions of the damned.
1858, John Bull, The Treasury of Light, page 440
He also teaches Rite and Ritual based on innumerous paths from Solomonic Rite and Ritual (the basis for Ordo Templ Orientis [OTO], the Golden Dawn, etc., etc., etc.) to Wicca to Paganism to Dragonism/Vamprism/Therianism/Lycanthropy to Satanism to Luciferianism to Necromancy to Saneria and the Yezidi Tibe Paths of Risen and Fallen Angelic Worship.
2010, Magus M. Douglas Hockett, Dark Poetry from A Gothic View
However, the choice of imaginary subjects on the school timetable is disturbing —"dragonism” and “vampirism” are equated with “religious education” which might be interpreted as children being captives of Catholic education.
2018, Michael Hanne, Anna A. Kaal, Narrative and Metaphor in Education: Look Both Ways