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Meanings of orphic in English
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Examples for "secret"
Examples for "secret"
1
They say that keeping that number a secret is simply industry practice.
2
Methods: Review of previously secret tobacco industry documents available on the internet.
3
But New Zealand's high rates of family violence are hardly a secret.
4
Hundreds have gone missing after seen last being taken by secret police.
5
Its secret nature, however, meant that this information was slow in coming.
1
At some mysterious and critical point, the crime rate began to turn.
2
GOVERNMENT departments are known to work in mysterious ways, writes Michael Dervan.
3
Two days later a second mysterious event gave the rumors new life.
4
Occupation: Former police officer turned private detective; peerless solver of mysterious murders.
5
Its capital runs into millions; its prospectuses are pompous; its pay-roll mysterious.
1
The thirteenth-century mystic had preached such strange things with such common words.
2
He was a master in the coming of mystic phrases in letters.
3
Not the least in the world: on the contrary, a confirmed mystic.
4
Then the voice of the aged mystic was again heard in reply:
5
This is not the time or place to discuss such mystic matters.
1
His later work became more mystical and less particularly concerned with Palestine.
2
The words used in their composition are the hieroglyphics of mystical ideas.
3
This mystical film by Jim Henson set a new standard for animatronics.
4
Any true stories of mystical connection during the process of giving birth.
5
Twenty-three was a beautiful number, a prime with mystical qualities and associations.
1
Purpose: To report a case of occult globe perforation following craniofacial surgery.
2
Of course I had certain-certainoccult defences I never told you about.
3
Methods: Sixty patients with a clinically occult breast lesion were prospectively included.
4
The other we could credit to the occult; but not the sound.
5
Published at least 100 more books, mainly about crime and the occult.
Usage of orphic in English
1
Thus do we see that the orphic habit was already beginning to germinate.
2
And they have such an orphic character, too; you can interpret them in so many different ways.
3
The most ardent of their votaries must flush in generous deprecation when those orphic inquiries flow from lips quite as divine as their own.
4
Starting at the bottom of the card, we find the Orphic egg.
5
It is natural that the Orphic Alcott should build graceful summer-houses.
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The famous Orphic egg was consecrated to Bacchus in his Mysteries.
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Thus, in one of the Orphic Hymns, we find this line:-
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In the Orphic theogony we find, for the first time, the idea of creation.
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The Orphic Argonaut sings of the division of the ancient Lyktonia into separate islands.
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And the Orphic poets add a similar picture of another.
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In the Orphic poem, Phanes is both male and female.
12
It is improbable that in this somewhat Orphic mystery there lies any pre-Vedic myth.
13
That Orphic fable of Zagreus repeats itself in many households.
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The Orphic metamorphosis meant a complete disappearance from her life.
15
No Orphic festivals on Mount Cithaeron ever raged more wildly.
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On the whole, however, our Orphic authorities can never be quoted with much satisfaction.
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