from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun Greek Mythology A priestess of Apollo at Delphi.
noun A prophetess.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun The Pythia or especial priestess of Apollo at his temple at Delphi, who was supposed to be inspired to give his oracular answers; hence, any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a witch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Gr. Antiq.) The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.
noun Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch.
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noun Alternative capitalization of Pythoness
noun A female soothsayer
noun A female python.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a witch with powers of divination
noun (Greek mythology) the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who transmitted the oracles
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English phitonesse, from Old French phitonise, from Late Latin pȳthonissa, from Greek Pūthōn, Python; see Python.]
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See Pythoness.
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python + -ess
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Examples
She was known as the Kansas pythoness in those days before women's suffrage made such references to a woman's sex politically incorrect.
Each one was sharp enough to weaken a normal man, render him helpless and send him to his knees begging for mercy in the face of a powerful Wiccan pythoness like Mysti.
Each one was sharp enough to weaken a normal man, render him helpless and send him to his knees begging for mercy in the face of a powerful Wiccan pythoness like Mysti.
It is only necessary to have a spirit like the pythoness; and, to bring this spirit of pythonism into successful operation it is only necessary that one party should be a knave and the other a fool; and no one can deny that such rencontres very frequently occur.
The modern Chams find no difficulty worshipping the Hindu Trinity,the linga, the bull of Siva, a pythoness, Allah-- who is believed to have been an eleventh century Cham king-- plus Mohammed and a number of uncomprehended words taken from the Muslim invocations and regarded as the names of deities, each with its special function.
The modern Chams find no difficulty worshipping the Hindu Trinity,the linga, the bull of Siva, a pythoness, Allah-- who is believed to have been an eleventh century Cham king-- plus Mohammed and a number of uncomprehended words taken from the Muslim invocations and regarded as the names of deities, each with its special function.
He had approached the family mansion in so blindly buoyant a spirit as to have set up his camera to photograph his first sight of it; and even the camera had taken on the semblance of the tripod of a tragic pythoness.
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