Meanings of orphic in English

Thus do we see that the orphic habit was already beginning to germinate.

And they have such an orphic character, too; you can interpret them in so many different ways.

The most ardent of their votaries must flush in generous deprecation when those orphic inquiries flow from lips quite as divine as their own.

Starting at the bottom of the card, we find the Orphic egg.

It is natural that the Orphic Alcott should build graceful summer-houses.

The famous Orphic egg was consecrated to Bacchus in his Mysteries.

Thus, in one of the Orphic Hymns, we find this line:-

In the Orphic theogony we find, for the first time, the idea of creation.

The Orphic Argonaut sings of the division of the ancient Lyktonia into separate islands.

And the Orphic poets add a similar picture of another.

In the Orphic poem, Phanes is both male and female.

It is improbable that in this somewhat Orphic mystery there lies any pre-Vedic myth.

That Orphic fable of Zagreus repeats itself in many households.

The Orphic metamorphosis meant a complete disappearance from her life.

No Orphic festivals on Mount Cithaeron ever raged more wildly.

On the whole, however, our Orphic authorities can never be quoted with much satisfaction.