Pythonic

Quick meaning: Pythonic is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to, or resembling, a python (“large constricting snake of the family Pythonidae”); pythonlike.

Meaning

Of or pertaining to, or resembling, a python (“large constricting snake of the family Pythonidae”); pythonlike.

More Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to an oracle or prophet, or to the telling of prophecies; oracular, prophetic.
2. (programming) Alternative letter-case form of Pythonic (“using the idioms of the Python programming language”).
3. Alternative letter-case form of Pythonic (“of or pertaining to, or resembling, the Python in Ancient Greek mythology, a serpent which lived at Delphi (regarded as the centre of the Earth) until it was killed by Apollo; (figurative) enormous; monstrous”).

Example Sentences

The blue glitter of Mr Kelly's eyes in the uttermost depths of their orbits became fixed, then veiled by the classical pythonic glaze.

And if it be his [Andreas Schott's] Opinion there vvas no ſuch Thing as a Pythonick Spirit, I vviſh he vvould read the Anſvver Father [Jean-François] Baltus has vvrit to Mr. [Bernard Le Bovier de] Fontenelle’s Book of Oracles, […]

[T]he ſpirit from ſimilar affection favours the thoughts or principles of the man, […] The Pythonic ſpirits of old vvere ſuch, as alſo the Magi in Egypt and Babel, vvho vvere called vviſe men, on account of their talking vvith ſpirits, and plainly feeling their operation upon them.

Here is what we read in Deuteronomy, Chap. XVIII: "Neither let there be found among you any one that … consulteth soothsayers … or pythonic spirits, or fortune tellers, or that seeketh the truth from the dead. For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these abominations he will destroy them."

Synonyms for pythonic

Depending on context, synonyms include panomphean, pythonical.

Antonyms for pythonic

Common opposites include unpythonic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pyrimidinic, pyridinic, parsnipy, pyrocultural, pygidial, pyrenic.

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