“pythonissa”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

pythonissa

释义

‖ pythoˈnissa Now rare.
Forms: 4–5 phitonissa, -yssa, 5–7 -essa, 6 phætonissa, 7– pythonissa.
[Late L. pȳthōnissa (Vulgate), med.L. phitonissa (Du Cange), fem. of pȳthō python².]
= pythoness. (Often treated as proper name of the witch of Endor.)[Cf. Vulg. 1 Chron x. 13 Eo quod..insuper etiam pythonissam consuluerit: LXX ἐν τῷ ἐγγαστριµύθῳ.] c1386Chaucer Friar's T. 210 Speke as renably..As to the Phitonissa [v. rr. -yssa, -essa] dide Samuel.1586Tri. Trophes 73 in Bond Lyly's Wks. (1902) III. 430 In Phætonissa schoole, at Endor they were taught.1608Middleton Fam. Love iii. iv, What heauenly breath of Phitonessaes powre (That rays'd the dead corpes of her friend to life).1625Bacon Ess., Of Prophecies (Arb.) 535 Saith the Pythonissa to Saul; To Morrow thou and thy sonne shall be with me.1825Ann. Reg. 216/2 The oracles of the humble Pythonissa [Mme. Krudener] were declared seditious.

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