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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

pythonissa

: cf. F.

pythonisse

. See

(Gr. Antiq.)

The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.

Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch.

Bp. Hall.

Noun.

[L., Gr., a dragon or serpent.] A sort of witch; also, the female or priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi, in Greece.