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- adjective Of or relating to
Delphi inGreece ;Delphic . - noun A native or inhabitant of Delphi.
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Examples
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One of these who made her abode at Delphi in Greece was called the Delphian, or
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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The girls demanded to be sent to boarding school, so Haggis enrolled them at the Delphian School, which uses Hubbard's educational system, called Study Tech.
What happens when you try to leave the Church of Scientology? 2011
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Call'd to this charge from all the Delphian dames.
Ion 2008
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Delphian sword, when he claims satisfaction of me for the death of his father Achilles.
Orestes 2008
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Her visits were virtually the only contact Nelson Mandela had with the outside world, and this access to the oracle of resistance bequeathed upon Winnie a Delphian magic.
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Call'd to this charge from all the Delphian dames.
Ion 2008
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Delphian sword, when he claims satisfaction of me for the death of his father Achilles.
Orestes 2008
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Delphian people shall be independent, and shall retain their own revenues and their own courts of justice, both for themselves and for their territory, according to their ancestral customs.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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Pythia, who, on the Delphian tripod, admitted the inspiration of
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But if you see what Herodotus actually says about that prophecy, the Delphian oracle said Sparta would either lose their city or their king would die.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2007
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