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Definition of Pythonic
1. a. Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.
Definition of Pythonic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the pythons ¹
2. Adjective. Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pythonic
1. python [adj] - See also: python
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pythonic
Literary usage of Pythonic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1897)
"asserted to have gone to be purified from the sin of homicide for the slaughter
of the Delphic pythonic high priest,*—my mind wandered from its pur- * It is ..."
2. Calmet's Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Historical, Critical by Augustin Calmet, Charles Taylor, Edward Wells (1814)
""He hath Beelzebub,"-ie he is possessed by a pythonic spirit ; as we read, Terse 30.
"because they said, he hath an unclean spirit ;" ie a heathen deity. ..."
3. Moral principles and medical practice: The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence by Charles Coppens, Henry Stanislaus Spalding (1921)
"The oracles of the pagan gods .and goddesses were not all the work of the pythonic
spirits. Much was craft of the priests of idols; and yet all were ..."
4. The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian by James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell (1880)
"Still, the pythonic inspiration of heathenism coincides with the demoniacal
possession of Scripture thus far, that in both cases alike there is set forth a ..."
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