| 释义 |
pyˈthonical, a. Now rare.
[f. as pythonic a.1 + -al1: see -ical.]
= pythonic a.1
1582N.T. (Rhem.) Acts xvi. 16 A certaine wenche hauing a Pythónical spirit. 1609Bible (Douay) Lev. xx. 27 Man or woman, in whom is a pithonical or divining spirite..they shal stone them. Ibid. 1 Kings xxviii. 7 There is a woman that hath a pithonical spirite in Endor [Vulg. est mulier pythonem habens in Endor]. a1872J. D. Aylward in Ess. Relig. & Lit. Ser. iii. (1874) 71 Revealing in his natural character the makings of an ecstatic saint, or of a pythonical medium. |