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Pythia

[ US /ˈpɪθiə/ ]
NOUN
  1. (Greek mythology) the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who transmitted the oracles

How To Use Pythia In A Sentence

  • To honor his triumph over the beast, Apollo instated the sacred games known as Pythian, which are held at Delphi every four years since 6 B.C.
  • The view from the terrace is of the ornate columns of the upper stories of a building on West 70th Street built in 1926 for the Knights of Pythias. Sanborn Seeks Home High Note
  • A researcher friend in Birmingham had uncovered a few details about what happened that night in the Pythian Temple. All things reconsidered: NPR's Michele Norris tells her family's complete story
  • Representatives from the Knights of Pythias secular fraternity were not able to offer insight into the disproportionate number of Jewish names on the plague. Laura Silver: On Veterans, Crosses And Shields
  • They spend a night in the Birchall mansion where Pythias and Damon play chess. The woe of an aspiring genius.
  • The Pythian was a downtown oasis of offices and meeting spaces for black professionals, clubs, night classes and social events. All things reconsidered: NPR's Michele Norris tells her family's complete story
  • Embracing third-party servicers such as Pythian "is a statement of confidence in that they're having enough successful implementations. Computerworld News
  • Pythias_ did before him -- of the Greek device of stichomythia. The Growth of English Drama
  • a prefiguration and mystical pointing out of the Pythian divineress, who used always, before the uttering of a response from the oracle, to shake a branch of her domestic laurel. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Regarding mortality, certainly the opponents of the Lapiths and Heracles were mortal; on the other hand, Sophocles and Apollodorus (in re: Prometheus unbinding) descrive Cheiron as immortal, squaring with his separate birth; and on yet another hand, Pindar (Pythian 3) calls Cheiron dead (Ovid alludes to his wounding and death, but doesn't say how). The Origins of Centaurs
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