Orphic is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ORPHIC in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• mystical, oracular, also ORPHICAL
• relating to Orpheus or Orphism.
• mystical or occult
• Pertaining to Orpheus; Orphean; as, Orphic hymns.
• ascribed to Orpheus or characteristic of ideas in works ascribed to Orpheus
• having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding

Words related to ORPHIC

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Words that contain ORPHIC

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How to use ORPHIC in a sentence

• The only superstition attributed to him which does not at first sight seem to have its root in dread is that of the Orphic mysteries.
• Apollo or the sun is so called in the Orphic hymn, Oft as the Delian king with Sirius holds The central heavens.
• It is the speech of the tragic poet and a sort of poem, like tragedy, moving among the gods of Olympus, and not among the elder or Orphic deities.
• Probably the first of Orphic pictures was that produced by the quite authentic donkey who was induced to smear a canvas by lashing a tail duly dipped in paint.
• Socrates in answer appeals first of all to the old Orphic tradition that the souls of the dead are in the world below, and that the living come from them.
• There is an Oriental, or rather an Egyptian element in them, and they have an affinity to the mysteries and to the Orphic modes of worship.
• No Orphic festivals on Mount Cithaeron ever raged more wildly.
• It found its way into Hellas probably through the medium of Orphic and Pythagorean rites and mysteries.
• Add to this, that Homer and Hesiod, and the authors of the Orphic poetry, knew of no such duplicates.
• Some traces however are to be still found in the Orphic verses above-mentioned, by which we may discover her original character and department.
• They are all imitations, rather than translations of the antient Orphic poetry, accompanied with a short comment.
• The famous Orphic egg was consecrated to Bacchus in his Mysteries.
• He was the same with Kneph, from whose mouth issued the Orphic egg out of which came the Universe.
• Christian Fathers quote Orphic hymn teaching Unity of God, 415-u.
• Symbolism of the double sex of the Universe and Orphic egg, 655-l.
• Unity of God taught in the Orphic hymn quoted by Aristobulus, 415-u.
• Universe came from the Orphic egg issued from the mouth of Kneph, 585-u.
• But it played a prominent part in the philosophy of Pythagoras and in the Orphic mysteries, which had some connection with Thrace and possibly also with Crete.
• The Orphic metamorphosis meant a complete disappearance from her life.

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