Definitions for Delphic

Delphic Del·phic

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IPA: /ˈdɛl fɪk/

Delphic is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in Delphic (cdehilp).

Definitions for Delphic

adjective

  1. of or relating to Delphi.
  2. of or relating to Apollo, or to his temples or oracles.
  3. (often lowercase) oracular; obscure; ambiguous:

Origin of Delphic

1590-1600; Latin Delphicus Greek Delphikós, equivalent to Delph(oí) Delphi + -ikos -ic

Examples for Delphic

With this Delphic utterance he put his finger to his lips, and vanished.

Like the Delphic oracles, her predictions were given in metre, and veiled in mystery.

It is not right to say that Apollo fought a dragon for the Delphic shrine.

"A Delphic utterance, if ever there was one," he said, and laughed partly in relief.

The date of the Delphic oracle, which pronounced him the wisest of men, is not known.

The grand encourager of Delphic and other noises is the echo.

Like all prophecies, it was somewhat Delphic; but he could get the general drift.

The Epirotes say that these are descended from the Delphic python.

Those Delphic lines: lines so crowded with meaning as to seem the utterances of an oracle.

There speaks the oracle for you with true Delphic vagueness.

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