Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 155

Pythagorism (n.) The doctrines taught by Pythagoras.

Pythagorized (imp. & p. p.) of Pythagorize

Pythagorizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pythagorize

Pythagorize (v. i.) To speculate after the manner of Pythagoras.

Pythiad (n.) The period intervening between one celebration of the Pythian games and the next.

Pythian (a.) Of or pertaining to Delphi, to the temple of Apollo, or to the priestess of Apollo, who delivered oracles at Delphi.

Pythocenic (a.) Producing decomposition, as diseases which are supposed to be accompanied or caused by decomposition.

Python (n.) Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake.

Python (n.) A diviner by spirits.

Pythoness (n.) The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.

Pythoness (n.) Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch.

Pythonic (a.) Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.

Pythonism (n.) The art of predicting events after the manner of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi; equivocal prophesying.

Pythonist (n.) A conjurer; a diviner.

Pythonomorpha (n. pl.) Same as Mosasauria.

Pyuria (n.) A morbid condition in which pus is discharged in the urine.

Pyx (n.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved.

Pyx (n.) A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint.

Pyx (n.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.

Pyx (n.) Same as Pyxis.

Pyx (v. t.) To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx.

Pyxidate (a.) Having a pyxidium.

Pyxidia (pl. ) of Pyxidium

Pyxidium (n.) A pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel and purslane.

Pyxidium (n.) The theca of mosses.

Pyxle (n.) Same as Pixy.

Pyxis (n.) A box; a pyx.

Pyxis (n.) A pyxidium.

Pyxis (n.) The acetabulum. See Acetabulum, 2.

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