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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or resembling a python.
  • adjective Of or resembling an oracle; prophetic.
  • adjective Of extraordinary size and power.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to a python or the pythons; resembling a python.
  • Oracular; pertaining to the prediction of future events; prophetic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the pythons
  • adjective Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.

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Examples

  • Wondrous things were wrought by the so-called pythonic spirit; evidently outside the natural order, still more evidently not by the agency of God, and of a certainty through the secret workings of the "Old Boy" himself.

    Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

  • This library takes a "pythonic" approach to make it more clear and easy to implement.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • It was made for inspecting and modifying DICOM files in an easy "pythonic" way.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

  • It was simply considered not worth the effort to invent a convoluted new syntax for it which would not be very pythonic.

    A few more Python thoughts from a Perl guy : #comments 2008

  • This film dealt with the pythonic police as prescient "precogs," able to know that someone was about to commit a crime.

    Lionel: I Hate Hate Crimes 2009

  • The green was then plucked from our modest front yard flora and rushed to the banks, but the banks then stubbornly refused to shelter us with their pythonic branches.

    Banks Get a Bailing Grade 2009

  • This looks like a simple-to-use and very pythonic tool for parsing options from the command line.

    A Python Cookbook Recipe – Parsing the command line 2006

  • This looks like a simple-to-use and very pythonic tool for parsing options from the command line.

    WriteBoard – Write, Share, Revise, Comment 2006

  • Externally I'm focusing on making Gnuplot do my bidding (/me curses python front-ends that haven't been designed in a pythonic way, and so break python's design aim of "principle of least surprise") and other matters related to dealing with my paper in these last 48 hours.

    April 6th, 2004 2004

  • This did not always guarantee either sleeper a dry or restful nap, however, since from time to time something in his pythonic dreams would bestir the serpent-man, causing him to turn over in his slumber and dump his dozing companions unceremoniously into the drink.

    Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

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