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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.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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