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单词 Pythic
释义 Pythic, a.|ˈpɪθɪk|
[ad. L. Pȳthic-us, Gr. Πῡθικός, f. Πῡθώ or Πῡ́θων: see prec.]
= Pythian a.
1603Holland Plutarch Explan. Wds., Pythick or Pythian games, were celebrated to the honour of Apollo Pythius, neere the city Delphos, with great solemnity.1746Francis tr. Horace, Art Poetry 559 A Youth..Who sings the Pythic Song.1860E. Falkener Dædalus, Anc. Art ii. 61 Conquerors in the Olympic and Pythic games.
b. Like or of the nature of the Pythian priestess; ecstatic, phrenetic.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. iv. i, Count..d'Aintrigues..rises into furor almost Pythic.1850Masson Ess., Wordsw. (1856) 386 There was no tremendousness, nothing of the Pythic, in the nature of Wordsworth.
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