pythonic

See also: Pythonic

English

Etymology

python +‎ -ic or Python +‎ -ic

Pronunciation

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Adjective

pythonic (comparative more pythonic, superlative most pythonic)

1. Of or pertaining to the pythons.
2. Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.
   • 1858, The Pythonism of the Present Day, page 37:

     To such, and for the same reason, the Pythonic oracles at Delphi, at Dodona, and at the temple of Ammon in Lybia, were means of good.

   • 1919, William Richard Harris, Essays in occultism, spiritism, and demonology, page 137:

     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. […]”

3. (programming) Alternative letter-case form of Pythonic

   Antonym: unpythonic

Anagrams

• Typhonic, hypnotic, phytonic, typhonic