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The Pythonissa: A Slippery Soothsayer - Scranshums
Phitonissa, or pythonissa, is a rare word. Here, it's a synonym for witch. I only came across it on this one occasion while trawling through volumes of 14 th ...
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PYTHONISSA Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of PYTHONISSA is pythoness.
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pythonissa - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun · witch · sorceress. Declension. edit · First-declension noun. singular, plural. nominative, pȳthōnissa, pȳthōnissae · genitive · pȳthōnissae ...
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pythonissa
‖ pythoˈnissa Now rare. Forms: 4–5 phitonissa, -yssa, 5–7 -essa, 6 phætonissa, 7– pythonissa. [Late L. pȳthōnissa (Vulgate), med.L. phitonissa (Du Cange), fem. of pȳthō python2.] = pythoness. (Often treated as proper name of the witch of Endor.) [Cf. Vulg. 1 Chron x. 13 Eo quod..insuper etiam python...
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Pythonissa, n. meanings, etymology and more
The earliest known use of the noun Pythonissa is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for Pythonissa is from around 1395, ...
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PHITONISSA
The witch of Endor is called mulier Pythonem habens, "a woman having the python," I Kings 28:7, indicating that she had some aspects of the pagan priestess.
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Kraatz, 1859) g
Medon pocofer (Peyron, 1858) g
Medon pocoferus (Peyron, 1857) g
Medon prolixus (Sharp, 1874) g
Medon pugetensis Hatch, 1957 g
Medon pythonissa
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Latin Definition for: pythonissa, pythonissae (ID: 32432)
Definitions: sorceress; witch. Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries); Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious; Geography: ...
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Pythoness - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
Originating from Late Latin pythonissa and Old French phitonise, 'pythoness' means a woman with soothsaying powers, linked to the Delphic Oracle's ...
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A fragment of De Pythonissa by Methodius of Olympus (d. ca. 300 ...
Only fragments of the original Greek text of De Resurrectione still exist. But the complete text is preserved in Old Slavonic (or “Old Slavic” as our American ...
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pythonissa - Ancient Greek (LSJ)
Latin > English. pythonissa pythonissae N F :: witch; sorceress. Latin > English (Lewis & Short). pȳthōnissa: ae 3. pytho,
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pythoness, n. meanings, etymology and more
A woman believed to be possessed by a spirit and to be able to forsee the future; a female soothsayer; a witch. Also figurative.
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pythoness
pythoness (paɪ-, ˈpɪθənɛs) Forms: α. 4–6 phiton-, 5 phyton-, phetonesse, (fetonass), 5–6 phitones, phetonysse, 7 phytonisse. β. 6–7 pythonisse, 7 python-, pithonesse, 6– pythoness. [a. OF. phitonise (13th c. in Godef. Compl.), ad. med.L. phitonissa (Du Cange); later F. pythonisse, ad. late L. python...
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Methodius of Olympus
extant, Jerome mentions (loc. cit.) a voluminous work against Porphyry, the Neoplatonist who had published a book against Christianity; a treatise on the Pythonissa
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