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Delphian|ˈdɛlfɪən|
[f. Delphi place name + -an.]
Of or relating to Delphi, a town of ancient Greece on the slope of Mount Parnassus, and to the sanctuary and oracle of Apollo there; hence, of or relating to the Delphic Apollo; and transf. oracular, of the obscure and ambiguous nature of the responses of the Delphic oracle.
1625Hart Anat. Ur. i. ii. 25 [They] are nothing at all ashamed, by the vrine alone to deliuer their Delphian oracles concerning all diseases. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 48 This treasure..was a part of the Delphian riches. 1873Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 322 His eyes had an inward Delphian look. 1887Bowen Virg. æneid ii. 113 We send, perplexed, to the Delphian fane, Counsel to ask of the god.
So ˈDelphic, † ˈDelphical a.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie 169 Some of his new-minted Epithets (as Reall, Intrinsecate, Delphicke). a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 174 The mathematical table was by the ancients called the Delphick table. 1742Young Nt. Th. vii. 595 Pride, like the Delphic priestess, with a swell, Rav'd nonsense, destin'd to be future sense. 1830Fraser's Mag. I. 60 This delphic fury—this preternatural possession. 1879Daily News 22 Nov. 5/5 This reads rather like a Delphic response. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 174 No riddles or Delphicall answers. |