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Pythoness

noun
1.
A witch with powers of divination.
2.
(Greek mythology) the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who transmitted the oracles.  Synonym: Pythia.





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... sage, Phidias the sculptor, and many another immortal artist; and somewhere among the free citizens, perhaps beside his father Sophroniscus the sculptor, a short, square, pugnosed boy of ten years old, looking at it all with strange eyes—'who will be one day,' so said the Pythoness at Delphi, 'the wisest man in Greece'—sage, metaphysician, humourist, warrior, patriot, martyr—for ...
— Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 • Charles Kingsley


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