English dictionary: words starting with p - page 734
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Meanings of Pythagorically:
adverbIn a pythagorean manner; according to or in accordance with pythagorean philosophy or doctrine.
Meanings of Pythagorism:
nounThe philosophy or doctrine of pythagoras or his followers; = pythagoreanism .
Meanings of Pythagorist:
nounA follower of pythagoras or of pythagorean philosophy or doctrine; (frequently depreciative) a person devoted to the observance of the mystical or ritual (as opposed to the scientific) aspects of pythagorean doctrine.
Meanings of Pythagorize:
verbTo follow pythagoras or the pythagorean system of philosophy; to speculate or philosophize after the manner of pythagoras.
Meanings of Pythia:
proper nounThe priestess of apollo at delphi in ancient greece.
Meanings of Pythiad:
noun(the festival of) the pythian games; (also) a period of four-years measured from one celebration of the pythian games to the next. compare "olympiad".
Meanings of Pythiambic:
nounA composite metre consisting of a dactylic hexameter (pythian metre) followed by an iambic colon.
adjectiveOf or relating to this metre.
Meanings of Pythian:
adjectiveRelating to or characteristic of pythia, the priestess of apollo at delphi in ancient greece.
Usage examples:
She begins to lose faith in the pythian prophecy
Meanings of Pythic:
adjective= "pythian". frequently in "pythic games".
Meanings of Pythogenic:
adjectiveGenerated by decomposing organic material or by decay; of or relating to such generation.
Meanings of Python:
nounA large heavy-bodied non-venomous snake occurring throughout the old world tropics, killing prey by constriction and asphyxiation.
Usage examples:
Anacondas are related to boa constrictors and pythons.
Meanings of Pythoness:
nounA woman believed to be possessed by a familiar spirit and to be able to foresee the future.
Usage examples:
An elevated term for a witch was pythoness, which came to us in medieval times from medical latin v…
Meanings of Pythonid:
nounA snake of the family pythonidae; a python.
adjectiveOf or relating to the family pythonidae.
Meanings of Pythonine:
adjectiveOf or relating to pythons, especially when regarded as constituting a subfamily (pythoninae) of the family boidae.
nounA pythonine snake; a python.
Meanings of Pythonism:
nounCommunication with or possession by a spirit; occult power derived from this; divination.
Meanings of Pythonist:
nounA person who claims to be possessed by, and to speak the words of, a spirit; a soothsayer; a fortune-teller; a conjuror.
Meanings of Pythonomorph:
nounOriginally: any of various large extinct marine reptiles of the former order pythonomorpha (corresponding to the present-day suborder mosasauria); a mosasaur; (now disused). now: any reptile of the clade pythonomorpha, which comprises the mosasaurs together with modern snakes.
adjectiveOf or relating to the order or clade pythonomorpha.
Meanings of Pythonomorpha:
nounOriginally: any of various large extinct marine reptiles of the former order pythonomorpha (corresponding to the present-day suborder mosasauria); a mosasaur; (now disused). now: any reptile of the clade pythonomorpha, which comprises the mosasaurs together with modern snakes.
adjectiveOf or relating to the order or clade pythonomorpha.
Meanings of Pythons:
nounA large heavy-bodied non-venomous snake occurring throughout the old world tropics, killing prey by constriction and asphyxiation.
Usage examples:
Anacondas are related to boa constrictors and pythons.
Meanings of Pyuria:
nounThe presence of pus in the urine, typically from bacterial infection.
Usage examples:
Because of hematuria, bacteriuria and pyuria, susan had been treated for a urinary tract infection …
Meanings of Pyx:
nounThe container in which the consecrated bread of the eucharist is kept.
Usage examples:
He wanted to restore to churches what he called ‘the real thing: vestments, pyxes, sedilia, road sc…
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