See Pythagorean, a.

The doctrines taught by Pythagoras.

of Pythagorize

of Pythagorize

To speculate after the manner of Pythagoras.

The period intervening between one celebration of the Pythian games and the next.

Of or pertaining to Delphi, to the temple of Apollo, or to the priestess of Apollo, who delivered oracles at Delphi.

Producing decomposition, as diseases which are supposed to be accompanied or caused by decomposition.

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.

A diviner by spirits.

The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.

Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch.

Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.

The art of predicting events after the manner of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi; equivocal prophesying.

A conjurer; a diviner.

Same as Mosasauria.

A morbid condition in which pus is discharged in the urine.

The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved.

The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.

Same as Pyxis.

To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx.

Having a pyxidium.

of Pyxidium

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.

The theca of mosses.

Same as Pixy.

A box; a pyx.

A pyxidium.

The acetabulum. See Acetabulum, 2. Q () the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. The name (k/) is from the French ku, which is from the Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the Latin, which derived it, through a Greek alphabet, from the Ph/nician, the ultimate origin being Egyptian.

In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as.