2. Noun. (plural of pythoness) ¹
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Definition of Pythonesses
1. pythoness [n] - See also: pythoness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pythonesses
Literary usage of Pythonesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The City of the Sultan, And, Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1836 by Pardoe (Julia) (1837)
"... Ceremony—Sable Pythonesses—Witchcraft. THE Turks are strangely superstitious;
they cling resolutely to the absurd and wild fancies which have been ..."
2. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"The probable fact is that there existed a school, or at any rate a succession,
of pythonesses at Cumae, and it is borne out by the fact that to the Sibyl ..."
3. Pocket Encyclopedia, Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature by Edward Augustus Kendall (1811)
"The sybils differ from the pythonesses, in that the latter delivered only the
... The pythonesses were •p called from the serpent which, in almost every ..."
4. Calmet's Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Historical, Critical by Augustin Calmet, Charles Taylor, Edward Wells (1814)
"And here we ought to remark, the distinction made, Deut. xviii. 11. between the
pythonesses, mistresses of Aub, ..."
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