Pythoness

NOUN
  1. (Greek mythology) the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who transmitted the oracles
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  • The modern Chams find no difficulty worshipping the Hindu Trinity,the linga, the bull of Siva, a pythoness, Allah-- who is believed to have been an eleventh century Cham king-- plus Mohammed and a number of uncomprehended words taken from the Muslim invocations and regarded as the names of deities, each with its special function. Archive 2005-07-01
  • Laius set off to ask the oracular Pythoness at Delphi how to deal with this monster.
  • She was known as the Kansas pythoness in those days before women's suffrage made such references to a woman's sex politically incorrect. Ken Blackwell: Piddler on the Roof
  • The modern Chams find no difficulty worshipping the Hindu Trinity,the linga, the bull of Siva, a pythoness, Allah-- who is believed to have been an eleventh century Cham king-- plus Mohammed and a number of uncomprehended words taken from the Muslim invocations and regarded as the names of deities, each with its special function. Some Travel Writing
  • Like a pythoness possessed by the demon, she inspired awe rather than pleasure. The Magic Skin
  • She is a story teller and through telling stories discovers new meanings, like the ancient forerunners of her profession - the pythonesses, abbesses and sibyls who ‘revealed mysteries’.
  • Each one was sharp enough to weaken a normal man, render him helpless and send him to his knees begging for mercy in the face of a powerful Wiccan pythoness like Mysti. The After Wife
  • It is only necessary to have a spirit like the pythoness; and, to bring this spirit of pythonism into successful operation it is only necessary that one party should be a knave and the other a fool; and no one can deny that such rencontres very frequently occur. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • He had approached the family mansion in so blindly buoyant a spirit as to have set up his camera to photograph his first sight of it; and even the camera had taken on the semblance of the tripod of a tragic pythoness. The Complete Father Brown
  • Alone like a pythoness on her tripod, like the oracle alone above the fissure into the unknown. Kangaroo
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