Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 155
Pythagorism (n.) The doctrines taught by Pythagoras.
Note: Pythagoras made numbers the basis of his philosophical system, as well physical as metaphysical. The doctrine of the transmigration of souls (metempsychosis) is associated closely with name of Pythagoras.
Pythagorized (imp. & p. p.) of Pythagorize.
Pythagorizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pythagorize.
Pythagorize (v. i.) To speculate after the manner of Pythagoras.
Pythiad (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) The period intervening between one celebration of the Pythian games and the next.
Pythian (a.) Of or pertaining to Delphi, to the temple of Apollo, or to the priestess of Apollo, who delivered oracles at Delphi.
Pythian games (Gr. Antiq.), One of the four great national festivals of ancient Greece, celebrated near Delphi, in honor of Apollo, the conqueror of the dragon Python, at first once in eight years, afterward once in four.
Pythocenic (a.) Producing decomposition, as diseases which are supposed to be accompanied or caused by decomposition.
Python (n.) (Zool.) 大蟒，巨蟒 Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake.
Note: The pythons have small pelvic bones, or anal spurs, two rows of subcaudal scales, and pitted labials. They are found in Africa, Asia, and the East Indies.
Python (n.) （附於人體的）鬼魂；鬼魂附體的占卜者 A diviner by spirits. "[Manasses] observed omens, and appointed pythons." -- 4 Kings xxi. 6 (Douay version).
Python (n.) Large Old World boas.
Python (n.) A soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a Spirit.
Python (n.) (Greek mythology) dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi.
Python, () In the words of its author, ?the other scripting language? (other than { Perl, that is). Python's design is notably clean, elegant, and well thought through; it tends to attract the sort of programmers who find Perl grubby and exiguous. Some people revolt at its use of whitespace to define logical structure by indentation, objecting that this harks back to the horrible old fixed-field languages of the 1960s. Python's relationship with Perl is rather like the BSD community's relationship to Linux ? it's the smaller party in a (usually friendly) rivalry, but the average quality of its developers is generally conceded to be rather higher than in the larger community it competes with. There's a Python resource page at http://www.python.org. See also Guido, BDFL. Q
Python, () A simple, high-level interpreted language invented by Guido van Rossum in 1991. Python combines ideas from ABC, C, Modula-3 and Icon. It bridges the gap between C and shell programming, making it suitable for rapid prototyping or as an extension language for C applications. It is object-oriented and supports packages, modules, classes, user-defined exceptions, a good C interface, dynamic loading of C modules and has no arbitrary restrictions.
Python is available for many platforms, including Unix, Windows, DOS, OS/2, Macintosh and Amoeba.
Latest version: 2.5, as of 2007-02-21.
Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.lang.python. (2007-02-21)
Python, () A compiler for CMU Common LISP. Python is more sophisticated than other Common Lisp compilers. It produces better code and is easier to use. The programming environment based on the Hemlock editor is better integrated than GNU Emacs based environments. (1997-02-27)
Pythoness (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.
Pythoness (n.) Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch. -- Bp. Hall.
Pythoness (n.) A witch with powers of divination
Pythoness (n.) (Greek mythology) The priestess of Apollo at Delphi who transmitted the oracles [syn: Pythia, Pythoness].
Pythonic (a.) Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.
Pythonism (n.) The art of predicting events after the manner of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi; equivocal prophesying.
Pythonist (n.) A conjurer; a diviner.
Pythonomorpha (n. pl.) (Paleon.) Same as Mosasauria.
Pyuria (n.) (Med.) A morbid condition in which pus is discharged in the urine.
Pyuria (n.) Presence of white blood cells in the urine; symptom of urinary tract infection.
Pyx (n.) (R. C. Ch.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved.
Pyx (n.) A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint. -- Mushet.
Pyx (n.) (Naut.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle. -- Weale.
Pyx (n.) (Anat.) Same as Pyxis.
Pyx cloth (R. C. Ch.), A veil of silk or lace covering the pyx.
Trial of the pyx, The annual testing, in the English mint, of the standard of gold and silver coins. -- Encyc. Brit.
Pyx (v. t.) To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx. [Eng.] -- Mushet.
Pyx (n.) A chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay [syn: pyx, pix, pyx chest, pix chest].
Pyx (n.) Any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept [syn: pyx, pix].
Pyxidate (a.) Having a pyxidium.
Pyxidia (n. pl. ) of Pyxidium.
Pyxidium (n.) (Bot.) A pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel and purslane.
Pyxidium (n.) (Bot.) The theca of mosses.
Pyxie (n.) (Bot.) Same as Pixy.
Pyxis (n.) [L.] A box; a pyx.
Pyxis (n.) (Bot.) A pyxidium.
Pyxis (n.) (Anat.) The acetabulum. See {Acetabulum}, 2.
Pyxis (n.) Fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released [syn: {pyxidium}, {pyxis}].
Pyxis (n.) A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Antlia.
Pyxis (n.) A small box used by ancient Greeks to hold medicines.