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Of, relating to, or resembling the monster Typhon of ancient mythology or the Egyptian god Set.

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Usage examples (4)
  • St. Luke explains (Acts xxvii. 14) that it was the 'typhonic wind called
  • It is called a "tempestuous wind," i.e., as literally rendered, a "typhonic wind," or a typhoon.
  • "Still," he continued, "the Celestials have implanted maternal love in the breast of the lioness, of the typhonic river-horse of the Nile."
  • 14, 15. a tempestuous -- "typhonic" wind -- that is, like a typhon or tornado, causing a whirling of the clouds, owing to the meeting of opposite currents of air. called...
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