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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Pythian.
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Count, or self-styled Count, d'Aintrigues, 'the young Languedocian gentleman,' with perhaps Chamfort the Cynic to help him, rises into furor almost Pythic; highest, where many are high.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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[2] In the 9th Pythic of Pindar, where Apollo, in the same manner, requires of Chiron some information respecting the fair Cyrene, the
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815
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From these customs were derived the Isthmian, Nemean, Pythic, and Olympic games, together with those at Delos.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) Jacob Bryant 1759
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