Delphian

[ US /ˈdɛɫfjən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to Delphi or to the oracles of Apollo at Delphi
    Delphic oracle

How To Use Delphian In A Sentence

  • Scepticism failed to save her from scenting danger in the ardent courtship of a rich young Philadelphian.
  • In April, he's released on bail after prominent Philadelphians vouched for his character.
  • Philadelphians and New Yorkers maintained that for the "conveniency" of transacting public business it made the most sense to place the capital in an established city. 'Washington: The Making of the American Capital'
  • The next day he rose early, and while the rest of his suite were sleeping went out unattended, returning before breakfast was over with a tally-card showing a killing of thirteen dinosaurs, twenty-seven megatheriums, and about six tons of chlamy-dophori, not to mention a mammoth jack-rabbit that some idiot had told him was the only specimen in the world of the monodelphian mollycoddle. The Autobiography of Methuselah
  • For she is not niggardly, like the smith who fashions the Delphian knife for many uses; she makes each thing for a single use, and every instrument is best made when intended for one and not for many uses.
  • Anyway, by now I'm finishing my fourth shot of whiskey and it's getting to be time to wrap this up, so speaking for pretty much everyone in the six County area; most of Eastern Pennsylvania, the entire state of Delaware, Jersey from Cape May to Trenton, and Philadelphians far afield in their Joycean exiles all over the planet, I'd like to say: Go Rangers! Larry Abrams: The Philadelphia Perspective: The Phillies Lose the Pennant
  • The Philadelphians took to the homeward trail with backward glances and something of regret lest the archaean foundations of that mountain of ore might shift over night. The Rapids
  • A lion is a monodelphian mammal, predatory, walking on its toes, of nocturnal habits, with a short rounded head and muzzle; dental formula: Incisors (3-3)/(3-3), canines (1-1)/(1/1), præmolars Logic Deductive and Inductive
  • She also showed nine portrait miniatures commissioned by Philadelphians.
  • The Szymanowski was the highlight of a program that also offered Mr. Dutoit and the Philadelphians in technically brilliant but curiously detached performances of "La Mer," by Debussy, and "The Rite of Spring," by Stravinsky. NYT > Home Page
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