Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of foretelling future events after the manner of the Delphic oracle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art of predicting events after the manner of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi; equivocal prophesying.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The art of predicting events after the manner of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi; equivocal prophesying.
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It is only necessary to have a spirit like the pythoness; and, to bring this spirit of pythonism into successful operation it is only necessary that one party should be a knave and the other a fool; and no one can deny that such rencontres very frequently occur.
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