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单词 pythic
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Pythicadj.n.

Brit. /ˈpɪθɪk/, U.S. /ˈpɪθɪk/
Forms: 1600s–1700s Pythick, 1600s– Pythicke, 1700s– Pythic.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin Pȳthicus; Greek Πυθικός.
Etymology: < classical Latin Pȳthicus and its etymon ancient Greek Πυθικός Pythian, Delphic < Πυθώ or Πύθων (see Pythian n.) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare Middle French, French pythique (1572 in the source translated in quot. 1603 at sense 1 in jeux pythiques Pythian games). Compare earlier isthmic adj. and slightly earlier Olympic adj.2
1. Greek History. = Pythian adj. Frequently in Pythic games.
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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).
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > frenzied or raging
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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).
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