(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:24:31

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.

 

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