Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Giving all divination or inspiration; sending all ominous and prophetic voices: an epithet of Zeus or Jupiter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Uttering ominous or prophetic voices; divining.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Uttering
ominous orprophetic voices ;divining .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nothing more, returned Bacbuc; for Trinc is a panomphean word, that is, a word understood, used and celebrated by all nations, and signifies drink.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Nothing more, returned Bacbuc; for Trinc is a panomphean word, that is, a word understood, used and celebrated by all nations, and signifies drink.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Nothing more, returned Bacbuc; for Trinc is a panomphean word, that is, a word understood, used and celebrated by all nations, and signifies drink.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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