pythonn.¹

Brit.

/ˈpʌɪθn/,

/ˈpɪθn/, U.S.

/ˈpaɪˌθɑn/,

/ˈpɪˌθɑn/,

/ˈpaɪθ(ə)n/,

/ˈpɪθ(ə)n/

Forms:

α. Middle English pheton, Middle English phitoun, Middle English phyton.

β. 1500s pitone, 1500s–1700s pithon, 1500s– python.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Pȳthōn.

Etymology: < classical Latin Pȳthōn < ancient Greek Πύθων , the name of a mythological serpent slain near Delphi by Apollo. Compare Middle French, French python mythological serpent (1575 as Pithon ), genus of large snakes (1803). In sense 2 < scientific Latin Python, genus name (F. M. Daudin 1803, in Magasin encyclopédique 5 434).The Greek word is evidently related to Πυθώ or Πυθών , the ancient name of the locality, although the exact relationship is unclear, as is the further etymology. (Both words are connected by some ancient authorities with πύθειν to cause to rot, πύθεσθαι to be rotten (see pythogenic adj.), because the serpent was said to have rotted there, but the quantity of the vowel causes difficulty with this view.) According to one form of the legend, the oracle originally belonged to or was guarded by the serpent, and, on the extermination of the latter, became the oracle of Apollo.

1. Greek Mythology. With capital initial. The serpent or monster killed by Apollo near Delphi; (hence poetic) any monstrous antagonist.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > characters from classical mythology > snakes

hydrac1374

pythonc1390

c1390 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 109 Phebus..slow Phitoun, the serpent, as he lay Slepynge agayn the sonne.

c1390 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 128 Phebus..in signe..of victorie Of Phitoun [v.rr. Phyton, Pheton]..Was wont to beren..a bowe.

1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 7 The Serpent Python so forswolne.

1590 G. Peele Polyhymnia in Wks. (1861) 571 Entering the lists, like Titan arm'd with fire When in the queachy plot Python he slew.

1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Explan. Words, sig. Zzzzz 6 Apollo Pythius..who tooke that name of Python there slaine by him and lying putrified.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 531 [Satan] Now Dragon grown, larger then whom the Sun Ingenderd in the Pythian Vale on slime, Huge Python .

1691 T. Heyrick Misc. Poems 107 Thus Python's Death Apollo's Godhead gave.

1757 M. Akenside Pleasures Imag. i, in Poems (1772) 140 The laurel boughs That crown'd young Phœbus for the Python slain.

1796 S. T. Coleridge Poems 146 When from his bow the arrow sped that slew Huge Python.

1851 C. L. Smith tr. T. Tasso Jerusalem Delivered iv. v Hydras hiss, and Pythons whistling wail.

1890 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 11 195 Great interest attaches to the sixth and fourteenth representation, the former being the slaughter of Python, the latter the death of Tityos at the hands of Apollo and Artemis.

1951 W. R. Agard Classical Myths Sculpt. i. 16 The scene of Apollo emerging triumphant over Python at Delphi is represented by Rodin in his customary lyric manner.

2004 Herald Sun (Australia) (Nexis) 10 Aug. 36 Once grown, Apollo made his way to Delphi where he destroyed the dragon Python and founded his famous oracle.

2. Any of various large, heavy-bodied, non-venomous snakes constituting the family Pythonidae, found in tropical parts of Africa, Asia, and Australasia, which kill their prey by constriction and have vestigial hind limbs. Also more widely: any large snake which crushes its prey (including the boas and related kinds). The family Pythonidae is often treated as the subfamily Pythoninae of the boa family, Boidae.reticulated, rock, royal python, etc.: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Boidae (boas) > member of

boaa1398

boiguacu1774

boa constrictor1809

pythona1825

rock python1853

the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Pythonidae > member of (python)

dragonc1220

rock snake1796

boa constrictor1809

pythona1825

macajuel1838

pythonine1890

pythonid1895

a1825 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVII. 33/1 They have been divided into several subgenera..α Pythons.

1835 A. Smith Diary 17 Aug. (1940) II. 167 Two of our party..fell upon a python measuring 9′ 11″ which I secured by placing a noose over her head.

1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi iv. 89 Two pythons were observed coiled together among the branches of a large tree.

1886 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 167 Dozens of young snakelets have been seen crawling into the open jaws..of certain pythons.

1930 ‘Greenhorn’ Tinker, Tailor xi. 272 His hunterman came back to look for him and shot the python.

1947 I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair xxxi. 209 The aboriginals pointed to the python's track across the ashes.

1969 J. Stidworthy Snakes of World 44 Boas and Pythons show features that mark them off from the majority of living snakes as being more primitive.

2006 BBC Focus Jan. 10 (caption) The python had burst while attempting to swallow whole a two-metre-long alligator.

Compounds

General attributive and objective, as python-hunter, python-killer, python-slayer, python-steak, python-stretch, etc.

ΚΠ

1796 S. T. Coleridge Let. 27 Dec. in Coll. Lett. (2000) I. 291 Is Paean the God of Poetry?—I think, that the ancients religiously confined the name to Apollo in his capacity of Healer & Python-killer.

1841 E. B. Lytton Night & Morning II. iv. i. 302 One that might have haunted the nymphs of Delos; the face of Apollo..not the Python-slayer, but the young dreamer by shady places.

1874 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 168 As Python-slayer of the present age.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 146 The great muscular python-stretch of her tail.

1953 R. Campbell Mamba's Precipice ii. 26 He and Nyali had had python-steak for supper.

1988 L. Blair Ring of Fire (BNC) 104 Following our python-hunters, who now seemed considerably less enthusiastic..we slid down coconut ropes to the sinkhole floor.

Derivatives

ˈpython-like adj.

ΚΠ

1876 W. D. Gunning Life-hist. our Planet iv. 143 By this movement the python-like monster after seizing its prey, worked it down his throat!

1935 E. R. Eddison Mistress xv. 252 The coil of hair..heavy, pythonlike..was fallen at her neck.

1997 Cultural Anthropol. 12 231 Spirits appear..either as fantastic python-like serpents or as albinos with long flowing hair.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Pythonn.²

Brit.

/ˈpʌɪθn/,

/ˈpɪθn/, U.S.

/ˈpaɪˌθɑn/,

/ˈpɪˌθɑn/,

/ˈpaɪθ(ə)n/,

/ˈpɪθ(ə)n/

Forms:

α. 1500s–1600s Pithon, 1500s– Python, 1600s Pithone.

β. 1500s Phiton.

Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin python-, pytho; Greek πύθων.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin python-, pytho familiar or possessing spirit with powers of divination, person possessed by such a spirit (Vulgate) and its etymon Hellenistic Greek πύθων familiar spirit, demon possessing a soothsayer (New Testament), ventriloquist, person believed to have a soothsaying spirit in their abdomen (Plutarch, in plural πύθωνες ), transferred use of ancient Greek Πύθων python n.¹, influenced in sense by πύθιος Pythian (see Pythian n.), Πυθία Pythia n., and their derivatives. Compare Middle French, French esprit de Python (1560; compare note), python diviner, soothsayer (1597). Compare earlier pythoness n.In early quotations with reference to the spirit mentioned in Acts 11:16 (Hellenistic Greek πνεῦμα Πύθονος , πνεῦμα Πύθονα , post-classical Latin spiritum pythonem (in accusative case)). Compare the following English translations of this passage (and also quot. 1582 at pythonical adj.):c1395 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) Acts xvi. 16 A damysel that hadde a spirit of diuynacioun.1611 Bible (King James) Acts xvi. 16 A certaine Damosell possessed with a spirit of diuination [marginor, of Python; 1881 R. V. marginor, a spirit, a Python].

Now historical.

A spirit which takes possession of a person; a familiar, esp. one with powers of prophesy. Also: a person possessed by and uttering the words of such a spirit.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] > familiar or possessing spirit

spiritc1350

familiar devila1464

familiar spirita1545

Python1548

familiar1583

succubus1601

demon1613

paredrusa1641

maisterel1652

obsessor1652

paredrial1652

cad1657

kanaima1825

Zar1868

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] > familiar or possessing spirit > one possessed by or speaking for

pythonessa1393

Pythonissac1395

demoniacc1405

demoniaclea1500

Python1548

energumen1564

engastrimyth1605

energumenist1646

engastriloque1718

possessionist1726

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination through oracles > [noun] > medium or mouthpiece of the deity, oracle > one possessed by familiar spirit

pythonerc1475

Python1548

pythonist1584

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. New Test I. Acts xvi. f. lix^v It chaunced..that a certayne damsell met vs, whiche had in her the spirit of the deuyll Pithon [L. habens spiritum Pythonis], whiche by propheciyng and tellyng thinges before hand, gotte greate auauntage to her master and maystresse.

1585 C. Fetherston tr. J. Calvin Comm. Actes Apostles xvi. 16. 394 They said that those who wer possessed wer inspired with the spirit of Python, and peradventure they wer thervpon called Phoebades in honor of Apollo.

1597 King James VI & I Daemonologie (1924) 20 She who had the spirite of python in the Actes whose spirite was put to silence by the apostle.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1327 Those spirits speaking within the bellies of possessed folkes, such as in old time they called Engastrimithi [= ventriloquists],..and be now termed Pythons, entred into the bodies of Prophets.

1609 Bible (Douay) I. Deut. xviii. 11 Neither let there be a sorcerer, nor inchanter, nor that consulteth with pithone, or diuiners [L. nec qui pythones consulat, Gk. ἐγγαστρίμυθος, Wycliffite hem that han a feend spekynge in the wombe].

1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα iii. xxii. 336 They peep and mutter, like Obs and Pythons, whispering as out of the earth and their bellies..more dubiously than the Oracles of Apollo.

1729 Bible (Mace) Acts xvi. 16 We happen'd to meet a slave, who had the spirit Python, and was very gainful to her masters.

1771 H. Farmer Diss. Miracles iii. 276 A spirit of Python or Apollo, denoted in the language of antiquity, not only the inspiration of Apollo, but also that raving and madness, which were the effect of that supposed inspiration and possession.

a1868 C. Harpur Poet. Wks. (1984) 315 A wild sad thing, in which the Python spirit Of ill-starred passion mingles mournful tones Even with such as, in triumphant starts, Depict the certainty of present joy!

1880 W. E. Scudamore in W. Smith & S. Cheetham Dict. Christian Antiq. II. at Python The attributes of the demon and the serpent were interchanged... The python slain by Apollo at Delphi was thought to have inspired the oracle before the god took his place... Hence..both in Jewish and Christian antiquity the name of python was given to prophesying spirits.

1927 H. J. Cadbury Making of Luke xix. 270 It is well to recall that he [sc. Luke] was equally convinced of the evil influences like the unclean spirits in the diseased, the python in the slave girl at Philippi and the evil spirit which attacked Scaeva's seven sons at Ephesus.

1986 Vigiliae Christianae 40 123 The statement in the fragment wants to demonstrate that demons can sometimes prophesy by referring to the example of Paul and the spirit of Python.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Pythonn.³

Brit.

/ˈpʌɪθn/, U.S.

/ˈpaɪˌθɑn/,

/ˈpaɪθ(ə)n/

Forms: also with lower-case initial.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: English Python.

Etymology: < Python, the code name of the scheme, apparently a specific use of python n.¹

Military. Now historical.

A scheme operating at the end of the Second World War (1939–45) under which members of the British armed forces were entitled to a period of repatriation after a long term of overseas service; a period of repatriation or home leave taken under this scheme. Also attributive as python leave, python scheme.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > [noun] > leave of absence > for armed forces > specific

Python1945

1945 Punch 22 Aug. 166/1 They are all either due for Python or their Age and Service Groups, and the last few days we have suffered from a constant round of farewell parties.

1945 L. Durrell Let. 15 Dec. in Spirit of Place (1969) 82 I took down a pomegranate..and tried to send it to her with a friend on python.

1969 A. G. Thomas in L. Durrell Spirit of Place 82 Under Python leave any soldier who had been in the Middle East for more than four years was granted one month at home with his family and then three months in some unit in Britain.

1976 R. Lewin Slim xv. 252 Python, the scheme for repatriation of men who had served a minimum of three years and four months in the Far East.

2005 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 5 Mar. (Features section) 31 Having served five years in the FarEast I came under the Python scheme and should not have been sent there until I'd had six months at home!

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹c1390

n.²1548

n.³1945

单词	python
释义	pythonn.¹ Brit. /ˈpʌɪθn/, /ˈpɪθn/, U.S. /ˈpaɪˌθɑn/, /ˈpɪˌθɑn/, /ˈpaɪθ(ə)n/, /ˈpɪθ(ə)n/ Forms: α. Middle English pheton, Middle English phitoun, Middle English phyton. β. 1500s pitone, 1500s–1700s pithon, 1500s– python. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Pȳthōn. Etymology: < classical Latin Pȳthōn < ancient Greek Πύθων , the name of a mythological serpent slain near Delphi by Apollo. Compare Middle French, French python mythological serpent (1575 as Pithon ), genus of large snakes (1803). In sense 2 < scientific Latin Python, genus name (F. M. Daudin 1803, in Magasin encyclopédique 5 434).The Greek word is evidently related to Πυθώ or Πυθών , the ancient name of the locality, although the exact relationship is unclear, as is the further etymology. (Both words are connected by some ancient authorities with πύθειν to cause to rot, πύθεσθαι to be rotten (see pythogenic adj.), because the serpent was said to have rotted there, but the quantity of the vowel causes difficulty with this view.) According to one form of the legend, the oracle originally belonged to or was guarded by the serpent, and, on the extermination of the latter, became the oracle of Apollo. 1. Greek Mythology. With capital initial. The serpent or monster killed by Apollo near Delphi; (hence poetic) any monstrous antagonist. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > characters from classical mythology > snakes hydrac1374 pythonc1390 c1390 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 109 Phebus..slow Phitoun, the serpent, as he lay Slepynge agayn the sonne. c1390 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 128 Phebus..in signe..of victorie Of Phitoun [v.rr. Phyton, Pheton]..Was wont to beren..a bowe. 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 7 The Serpent Python so forswolne. 1590 G. Peele Polyhymnia in Wks. (1861) 571 Entering the lists, like Titan arm'd with fire When in the queachy plot Python he slew. 1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Explan. Words, sig. Zzzzz 6 Apollo Pythius..who tooke that name of Python there slaine by him and lying putrified. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 531 [Satan] Now Dragon grown, larger then whom the Sun Ingenderd in the Pythian Vale on slime, Huge Python . View more context for this quotation 1691 T. Heyrick Misc. Poems 107 Thus Python's Death Apollo's Godhead gave. 1757 M. Akenside Pleasures Imag. i, in Poems (1772) 140 The laurel boughs That crown'd young Phœbus for the Python slain. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Poems 146 When from his bow the arrow sped that slew Huge Python. 1851 C. L. Smith tr. T. Tasso Jerusalem Delivered iv. v Hydras hiss, and Pythons whistling wail. 1890 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 11 195 Great interest attaches to the sixth and fourteenth representation, the former being the slaughter of Python, the latter the death of Tityos at the hands of Apollo and Artemis. 1951 W. R. Agard Classical Myths Sculpt. i. 16 The scene of Apollo emerging triumphant over Python at Delphi is represented by Rodin in his customary lyric manner. 2004 Herald Sun (Australia) (Nexis) 10 Aug. 36 Once grown, Apollo made his way to Delphi where he destroyed the dragon Python and founded his famous oracle. 2. Any of various large, heavy-bodied, non-venomous snakes constituting the family Pythonidae, found in tropical parts of Africa, Asia, and Australasia, which kill their prey by constriction and have vestigial hind limbs. Also more widely: any large snake which crushes its prey (including the boas and related kinds). The family Pythonidae is often treated as the subfamily Pythoninae of the boa family, Boidae.reticulated, rock, royal python, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Boidae (boas) > member of boaa1398 boiguacu1774 boa constrictor1809 pythona1825 rock python1853 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Pythonidae > member of (python) dragonc1220 rock snake1796 boa constrictor1809 pythona1825 macajuel1838 pythonine1890 pythonid1895 a1825 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVII. 33/1 They have been divided into several subgenera..α Pythons. 1835 A. Smith Diary 17 Aug. (1940) II. 167 Two of our party..fell upon a python measuring 9′ 11″ which I secured by placing a noose over her head. 1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi iv. 89 Two pythons were observed coiled together among the branches of a large tree. 1886 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 167 Dozens of young snakelets have been seen crawling into the open jaws..of certain pythons. 1930 ‘Greenhorn’ Tinker, Tailor xi. 272 His hunterman came back to look for him and shot the python. 1947 I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair xxxi. 209 The aboriginals pointed to the python's track across the ashes. 1969 J. Stidworthy Snakes of World 44 Boas and Pythons show features that mark them off from the majority of living snakes as being more primitive. 2006 BBC Focus Jan. 10 (caption) The python had burst while attempting to swallow whole a two-metre-long alligator. Compounds General attributive and objective, as python-hunter, python-killer, python-slayer, python-steak, python-stretch, etc. ΚΠ 1796 S. T. Coleridge Let. 27 Dec. in Coll. Lett. (2000) I. 291 Is Paean the God of Poetry?—I think, that the ancients religiously confined the name to Apollo in his capacity of Healer & Python-killer. 1841 E. B. Lytton Night & Morning II. iv. i. 302 One that might have haunted the nymphs of Delos; the face of Apollo..not the Python-slayer, but the young dreamer by shady places. 1874 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 168 As Python-slayer of the present age. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 146 The great muscular python-stretch of her tail. 1953 R. Campbell Mamba's Precipice ii. 26 He and Nyali had had python-steak for supper. 1988 L. Blair Ring of Fire (BNC) 104 Following our python-hunters, who now seemed considerably less enthusiastic..we slid down coconut ropes to the sinkhole floor. Derivatives ˈpython-like adj. ΚΠ 1876 W. D. Gunning Life-hist. our Planet iv. 143 By this movement the python-like monster after seizing its prey, worked it down his throat! 1935 E. R. Eddison Mistress xv. 252 The coil of hair..heavy, pythonlike..was fallen at her neck. 1997 Cultural Anthropol. 12 231 Spirits appear..either as fantastic python-like serpents or as albinos with long flowing hair. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Pythonn.² Brit. /ˈpʌɪθn/, /ˈpɪθn/, U.S. /ˈpaɪˌθɑn/, /ˈpɪˌθɑn/, /ˈpaɪθ(ə)n/, /ˈpɪθ(ə)n/ Forms: α. 1500s–1600s Pithon, 1500s– Python, 1600s Pithone. β. 1500s Phiton. Also with lower-case initial. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin python-, pytho; Greek πύθων. Etymology: < post-classical Latin python-, pytho familiar or possessing spirit with powers of divination, person possessed by such a spirit (Vulgate) and its etymon Hellenistic Greek πύθων familiar spirit, demon possessing a soothsayer (New Testament), ventriloquist, person believed to have a soothsaying spirit in their abdomen (Plutarch, in plural πύθωνες ), transferred use of ancient Greek Πύθων python n.¹, influenced in sense by πύθιος Pythian (see Pythian n.), Πυθία Pythia n., and their derivatives. Compare Middle French, French esprit de Python (1560; compare note), python diviner, soothsayer (1597). Compare earlier pythoness n.In early quotations with reference to the spirit mentioned in Acts 11:16 (Hellenistic Greek πνεῦμα Πύθονος , πνεῦμα Πύθονα , post-classical Latin spiritum pythonem (in accusative case)). Compare the following English translations of this passage (and also quot. 1582 at pythonical adj.):c1395 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) Acts xvi. 16 A damysel that hadde a spirit of diuynacioun.1611 Bible (King James) Acts xvi. 16 A certaine Damosell possessed with a spirit of diuination [marginor, of Python; 1881 R. V. marginor, a spirit, a Python]. Now historical. A spirit which takes possession of a person; a familiar, esp. one with powers of prophesy. Also: a person possessed by and uttering the words of such a spirit. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] > familiar or possessing spirit spiritc1350 familiar devila1464 familiar spirita1545 Python1548 familiar1583 succubus1601 demon1613 paredrusa1641 maisterel1652 obsessor1652 paredrial1652 cad1657 kanaima1825 Zar1868 the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] > familiar or possessing spirit > one possessed by or speaking for pythonessa1393 Pythonissac1395 demoniacc1405 demoniaclea1500 Python1548 energumen1564 engastrimyth1605 energumenist1646 engastriloque1718 possessionist1726 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination through oracles > [noun] > medium or mouthpiece of the deity, oracle > one possessed by familiar spirit pythonerc1475 Python1548 pythonist1584 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. New Test I. Acts xvi. f. lix^v It chaunced..that a certayne damsell met vs, whiche had in her the spirit of the deuyll Pithon [L. habens spiritum Pythonis], whiche by propheciyng and tellyng thinges before hand, gotte greate auauntage to her master and maystresse. 1585 C. Fetherston tr. J. Calvin Comm. Actes Apostles xvi. 16. 394 They said that those who wer possessed wer inspired with the spirit of Python, and peradventure they wer thervpon called Phoebades in honor of Apollo. 1597 King James VI & I Daemonologie (1924) 20 She who had the spirite of python in the Actes whose spirite was put to silence by the apostle. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1327 Those spirits speaking within the bellies of possessed folkes, such as in old time they called Engastrimithi [= ventriloquists],..and be now termed Pythons, entred into the bodies of Prophets. 1609 Bible (Douay) I. Deut. xviii. 11 Neither let there be a sorcerer, nor inchanter, nor that consulteth with pithone, or diuiners [L. nec qui pythones consulat, Gk. ἐγγαστρίμυθος, Wycliffite hem that han a feend spekynge in the wombe]. 1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα iii. xxii. 336 They peep and mutter, like Obs and Pythons, whispering as out of the earth and their bellies..more dubiously than the Oracles of Apollo. 1729 Bible (Mace) Acts xvi. 16 We happen'd to meet a slave, who had the spirit Python, and was very gainful to her masters. 1771 H. Farmer Diss. Miracles iii. 276 A spirit of Python or Apollo, denoted in the language of antiquity, not only the inspiration of Apollo, but also that raving and madness, which were the effect of that supposed inspiration and possession. a1868 C. Harpur Poet. Wks. (1984) 315 A wild sad thing, in which the Python spirit Of ill-starred passion mingles mournful tones Even with such as, in triumphant starts, Depict the certainty of present joy! 1880 W. E. Scudamore in W. Smith & S. Cheetham Dict. Christian Antiq. II. at Python The attributes of the demon and the serpent were interchanged... The python slain by Apollo at Delphi was thought to have inspired the oracle before the god took his place... Hence..both in Jewish and Christian antiquity the name of python was given to prophesying spirits. 1927 H. J. Cadbury Making of Luke xix. 270 It is well to recall that he [sc. Luke] was equally convinced of the evil influences like the unclean spirits in the diseased, the python in the slave girl at Philippi and the evil spirit which attacked Scaeva's seven sons at Ephesus. 1986 Vigiliae Christianae 40 123 The statement in the fragment wants to demonstrate that demons can sometimes prophesy by referring to the example of Paul and the spirit of Python. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Pythonn.³ Brit. /ˈpʌɪθn/, U.S. /ˈpaɪˌθɑn/, /ˈpaɪθ(ə)n/ Forms: also with lower-case initial. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: English Python. Etymology: < Python, the code name of the scheme, apparently a specific use of python n.¹ Military. Now historical. A scheme operating at the end of the Second World War (1939–45) under which members of the British armed forces were entitled to a period of repatriation after a long term of overseas service; a period of repatriation or home leave taken under this scheme. Also attributive as python leave, python scheme. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > leave of absence > for armed forces > specific Python1945 1945 Punch 22 Aug. 166/1 They are all either due for Python or their Age and Service Groups, and the last few days we have suffered from a constant round of farewell parties. 1945 L. Durrell Let. 15 Dec. in Spirit of Place (1969) 82 I took down a pomegranate..and tried to send it to her with a friend on python. 1969 A. G. Thomas in L. Durrell Spirit of Place 82 Under Python leave any soldier who had been in the Middle East for more than four years was granted one month at home with his family and then three months in some unit in Britain. 1976 R. Lewin Slim xv. 252 Python, the scheme for repatriation of men who had served a minimum of three years and four months in the Far East. 2005 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 5 Mar. (Features section) 31 Having served five years in the FarEast I came under the Python scheme and should not have been sent there until I'd had six months at home! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1390n.²1548n.³1945
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