单词 | pythic |
释义 | Pythicadj.n. 1. Greek History. = Pythian adj. Frequently in Pythic games. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > large or public event > [noun] > celebratory games > specific ancient Greek Nemean games1559 Panathenaea1578 Pythian games1579 Olympian Gamesa1586 Olympic Games1597 Isthmian games1603 Pythic games1603 Panathenaics1678 Nemean festival1844 society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > series of, as public spectacle > in ancient world > specific Olympiada1456 Nemean games1559 Panathenaea1578 Pythian games1579 Olympian Gamesa1586 Olympic Games1597 Isthmian games1603 Pythic games1603 Capitoline games1609 Olympics1621 Panathenaics1678 Nemean festival1844 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination through oracles > [adjective] > relating to an oracle > relating to the priestess of Apollo Pythian1570 Pythic1746 1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Explan. Words Pythick or Pythian games [Fr. ieux Pythiques], were celebrated to the honour of Apollo Pythius, neere the city Delphos, with great solemnity. 1619 D. Lindsay Pastors Resol. iii. 119 Such amongst the Heathen, were the Olympick, Pythick, and Isthmick games, wherein the prayses and honour of their gods were remembred and celebrated. 1699 W. King Dialogues of Dead 16 What Racing, what Running, what Wrestling, what Boxing at the Olympiads, the Pythick and Nemean Games, when the Oak, the Pine and Parsly garlands remain'd the Reward of their Victories. 1746 P. Francis tr. Horace Art of Poetry 559 A Youth..Who sings the Pythic Song [L. qui Pythia cantat]. 1749 G. West Diss. on Olympick Games in tr. Pindar Odes p. civ We may conclude, the signal for starting was given by the sound of a trumpet in the Olympick Chariot-Races, from Sophocles having informed us that this was the signal given in the Pythick Hippodrome. a1777 F. Fawkes tr. Apollonius Rhodius Argonautics (1780) iv. 298 Those mystic truths the Pythic shrine conceal'd. 1860 E. Falkener Dædalus, Anc. Art ii. 61 Conquerors in the Olympic and Pythic games. 1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 47 On fields where palsying Pythic laurels grow. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. II. v. 2 Brennus spoils the great fane of the Pythic god. 1967 Yale French Stud. No. 38. 78 During the stay of Calasiris at Delphi, the Pythic games take place. 1998 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 102 557/2 The Olympic and Pythic victor Aurelius Achilles. 2. Of the nature of, or characteristic of, a Pythian priestess; oracular; rapturous, frenetic. Also as n.The Oracle of Apollo at Delphi is said to have spoken in an ecstatic or intoxicated frenzy (cf. Pythia n. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > frenzied or raging aweddeOE woodc1000 woodlyc1000 wildc1300 franticc1390 ramage1440 welling woodc1440 staringc1449 rammistc1455 rabious1460 horn-wood?a1500 rammisha1500 enragea1522 frenzic1547 wood-like1578 horn-mad1579 woodful1582 frenzicala1586 ragefula1586 rabid1594 ravening1599 ravenous1607 Pythic1640 exorbitant1668 frenziful1726 haggard-wild1786 frenzied1796 maenadic1830 berserk1867 up the wall1951 ballistic1981 1640 J. Sadler Masquarade du Ciel 11 And so starts up in a pythick rapture, and swears by the Genius of all the Good Starres in his Horoscope, that what ere he thought, yet he meant. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. i. 167 Count, d'Aintrigues,..rises into furor almost Pythic. 1850 D. Masson Wordsworth in Ess. (1856) 386 There was no tremendousness, nothing of the Pythic, in the nature of Wordsworth. 1891 C. A. Ward Oracles of Nostradamus 40 There is a Pythic ring in all he writes and says; a sub-flavour, too, of cabalistic lore. 1957 W. Fowlie Guide Contemp. French Lit. viii. 253 Their forms do not appear in the least contestable or corroded, and yet they proclaim the primacy of the obscure, the sulphurous, the pythic. 1990 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 29 Jan. f4/5 In Lewis' ‘At Delphi’ (set to a commissioned sound score..), Morgan enacted vague Pythic intoxications. 2001 L. G. Cochrane tr. A. Boureau Myth Pope Joan 197 Hildegard states that God ‘fixed’ a capacity for vision in her when she was still in her mother's womb, a quasi-Apollonian concept of the pythic gift. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1603 |
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