Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pythoness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pythoness \Pyth"o*ness\, n. [L. pythonissa: cf. F. pythonisse.
See {Pythian}.]
1. (Gr. Antiq.) 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pythoness
n 1: a witch with powers of divination
2: (Greek mythology) the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who
transmitted the oracles [syn: {Pythia}, {Pythoness}]
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