pythoness 的定义
- a woman believed to be possessed by a soothsaying spirit, as the priestess of Apollo at Delphi.
- a woman who practices divination.
pythoness 近义词
等同于 sorceress
更多pythoness例句
- Dora stood in the center of the room like an enraged pythoness, her eyes blazing with passion.
- He sent messengers to ascertain if the Pythoness could tell what he, the King of Lydia, was doing on a certain specified day.
- In these paroxysms, Joanna raved like an ancient Pythoness whirling on her tripod, and to just about the same purpose.
- The Countess stood in the midst of her apartment like a juvenile Pythoness under the influence of the prophetic fury.
- The prophecy of Nostradamus is also obviously imitated from the response of the Delphic Pythoness to Œdipus.