Ophite is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OPHITE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a name given to various green-mottled rocks such as diabase and serpentine
• A member of an early Gnostic sect which worshipped the serpent.
• any of several greenish mottled rocks
• A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness. So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled appearance.
ADJECTIVE:
• Of or pertaining to a serpent.
• A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a green mottled igneous rock

Words related to OPHITE

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Words that contain OPHITE

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How to use OPHITE in a sentence

• John Lateran, are the only examples of ophite pillars in Rome.
• It was the name of the pyramid, which was erected to the Sun, the Ophite Deity of Egypt, worshipped under the symbol of a serpent.
• Ophel is literally Pytho Sol, the Ophite Deity of Egypt and Canaan.
• No colony could settle any where, and build an Ophite temple, but there was supposed to have been a contention between a hero and a dragon.
• I take Abadon, or, as it is mentioned in the Revelations, Abaddon, to have been the name of the same Ophite God, with whose worship the world had been so long infected.
• They were both equally named from the Ophite God, the great object of their adoration, and from the temple where he was worshipped.
• The story of Cadmus, and of the serpent, with which he engaged upon his arrival in Boeotia, relates to the Ophite worship, which was there instituted by the Cadmians.
• There are allusions to these Ophite temples, and to these pillars, upon the coins of Syria, and Tyre.

Similar words containing OPH without suffix ite

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