Word Meanings - PYTHONESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece. 2. Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch. Bp. Hall.

Related words: (words related to PYTHONESS)

• DELPHINIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, the dolphin; phocenic. Delphinic acid. See Valeric acid, under Valeric.
• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• WITCH-ELM
  See WYCH-ELM
• WITCH
  A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera. (more info) the same word as AS. witiga, witga, a soothsayer ; cf. Fries. wikke, a witch, LG. wikken to predict, Icel. vitki a wizard, 1. One who practices
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• DELPHINE
  Pertaining to the dolphin, a genus of fishes.
• WITCHING
  That witches or enchants; suited to enchantment or witchcraft; bewitching. "The very witching time of night." Shak. -- Witch"ing*ly, adv.
• DELPHINUS
  A genus of Cetacea, including the dolphin. See Dolphin,
• SPIRITUOSITY
  The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• SPIRITUAL-MINDED
  Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n.
• SPIRITISM
  Spiritualsm.
• WITCHCRAFT
  1. The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits. 2. Power more than natural; irresistible influence. He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue. Shak.
• SPIRITUALISTIC
  Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism.
• SPIRITUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being spirituous. Boyle.
• PRIESTESS
  A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans. Abp. Potter.
• WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. Chaucer.
• ORACULAR
  1. Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue. 2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism. They have something venerable and oracular
• DELPHINOID
  Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin.
• SPIRITUAL
  1. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 1 Cor. xv.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• DIADELPHIA
  A Linnæan class of plants whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments.
• UNWITCH
  To free from a witch or witches; to fee from witchcraft. B. Jonson.
• DIDELPHIC
  Having the uterus double; of or pertaining to the Didelphia.
• DISPIRITED
  Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• DIADELPHIAN; DIADELPHOUS
  Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments .
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• DISSPIRIT
  See DISPIRIT
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.