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pythian

pythian


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pythian  \Pyth"i*an\,  a.  [L.  Pythius,  Gr  ?  belonging  to  Pytho, 
  the  older  name  of  Delphi  and  its  environs:  cf  F.  pythien.] 
  Of  or  pertaining  to  Delphi,  to  the  temple  of  Apollo,  or  to 
  the  priestess  of  Apollo,  who  delivered  oracles  at  Delphi. 
 
  {Pythian  games}  (Gr.  Antiq.),  one  of  the  four  great  national 
  festivals  of  ancient  Greece,  celebrated  near  Delphi,  in 
  honor  of  Apollo,  the  conqueror  of  the  dragon  Python,  at 
  first  once  in  eight  years,  afterward  once  in  four