English dictionary: words starting with p - page 734

Meanings of Pythagorical:

adjective

Pythagorean.

Meanings of Pythagorically:

adverb

In a pythagorean manner; according to or in accordance with pythagorean philosophy or doctrine.

Meanings of Pythagorism:

noun

The philosophy or doctrine of pythagoras or his followers; = pythagoreanism .

Meanings of Pythagorist:

noun

A 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:

verb

To follow pythagoras or the pythagorean system of philosophy; to speculate or philosophize after the manner of pythagoras.

Meanings of Pythia:

proper noun

The 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:

noun

A composite metre consisting of a dactylic hexameter (pythian metre) followed by an iambic colon.

adjective

Of or relating to this metre.

Meanings of Pythian:

adjective

Relating 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:

adjective

Generated by decomposing organic material or by decay; of or relating to such generation.

Meanings of Python:

noun

A 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:

noun

A 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 Pythonical:

adjective

Pythonic.

Meanings of Pythonid:

noun

A snake of the family pythonidae; a python.

adjective

Of or relating to the family pythonidae.

Meanings of Pythonine:

adjective

Of or relating to pythons, especially when regarded as constituting a subfamily (pythoninae) of the family boidae.

noun

A pythonine snake; a python.

Meanings of Pythonism:

noun

Communication with or possession by a spirit; occult power derived from this; divination.

Meanings of Pythonissa:

noun

Pythoness.

Meanings of Pythonist:

noun

A person who claims to be possessed by, and to speak the words of, a spirit; a soothsayer; a fortune-teller; a conjuror.

Meanings of Pythonoid:

noun

A snake of this form or group.

Meanings of Pythonomorph:

noun

Originally: 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.

adjective

Of or relating to the order or clade pythonomorpha.

Meanings of Pythonomorpha:

noun

Originally: 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.

adjective

Of or relating to the order or clade pythonomorpha.

Meanings of Pythons:

noun

A 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:

noun

The 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:

noun

The 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…