Pyth"o*ness (?), n. [L. pythonissa: cf. F. pythonisse. See Pythian.]
1. Gr. Antiq.
The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.
2.
Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch.
Bp. Hall.
© Webster 1913.
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