† pythonizingn.
Obsolete.
An act of ventriloquizing (apparently used of the preaching of one faction of the Scottish Covenanters).Apparently an isolated use.
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1654 R. Baillie Let. 19 July in Lett. & Jrnls. (1842) III. 117 The man's vehemency in this, and in his prayer, a strange kind of sighing..as a pythonising out of the bellie of a second person.
1894 Times 17 May 14/3 The pulpit eloquence of the Protesters is described (by..Baillie) as ‘a..pythonizing out of the bellie of a second person’... A Presbyterian can be in earnest without pythonizing.]
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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