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

To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl. If Mævius scribble in Apollo's spite. Pope.

-- usually amatory. [Obs.] Shak. He had a wonderful desire to chant a sonnet or hymn unto Apollo Pythius. Holland.

To appeal to by an oath. Now, by Apollo, king, Thou swear'st thy gods in vain. Shak. To swear the peace against one, to make oath that one is under the actual fear of death or bodily harm from the person, in which case the person must find sureties that he will keep the peace.