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Definition of Pythoness
1. Noun. A witch with powers of divination.
2. Noun. (Greek mythology) the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who transmitted the oracles.
Definition of Pythoness
1. n. The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.
Definition of Pythoness
1. Noun. (history) The priestess of the oracle of Apollo at Delphi. ¹
2. Noun. (alternative capitalization of Pythoness) ¹
3. Noun. A female soothsayer ¹
4. Noun. A female python. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pythoness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pythoness
Literary usage of Pythoness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"And so we leave the bewildered pythoness in speechless convulsions upon 'her
tripod, and the irreverent audience rejoicing over the discomfiture of the ..."
2. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1828)
"Othello, by Blacklock, The following also slatted but were not placed': Mr Payne'«
ch. f. by Cervantes, out of badil, out of pythoness (Л. Paris) 11 3 yrs ..."
3. The Poetical Album: And Register of Modern Fugitive Poetry by Alaric Alexander Watts (1828)
"... THE pythoness. BACK she flung The gathered darkness of her raven hair, And
bared her marble brow, as she would turn An unchecked gaze on heaven;—back ..."
4. The Poetical Album: And Register of Modern Fugitive Poetry by Alaric Alexander Watts (1828)
"... THE pythoness. BACK she flung The gathered darkness of her raven hair, And
bared her marble brow, as she would turn An unchecked gaze on heaven;—back ..."
5. Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1880)
"THE pythoness. "Bind up her loose hair in the fillet, and wipe the cold dew from
her cheek, For the force of the spirit has left her ..."
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