Definitions for Orphic

Orphic Or·phic

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IPA: /ˈɔr fɪk/

Orphic is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in Orphic (chiopr).

Definitions for Orphic

adjective

  1. of or relating to Orpheus.
  2. resembling the music attributed to Orpheus; entrancing.
  3. pertaining to a religious or philosophical school maintaining a form of the cult of Dionysus, or Bacchus, ascribed to Orpheus as founder:
  4. (often lowercase) mystic; oracular.

Origin of Orphic

1670-80; Greek Orphikós (cognate with Latin Orphicus), equivalent to Orph(eús) Orpheus + -ikos -ic

Examples for Orphic

This he considered was The Excursion, an Orphic song indeed!

These were the Orphic hymns, which were sung by the Lycomed at Athens.

To them any version of the Orphic myth is tinglingly credible.

Of the Orphic doctrines we are able to give a somewhat better account.

We may also take it that he was familiar with all sorts of Orphic and Pythagorean sectaries.

The Orphic priests of old Greece most nearly resembled the shamans of the savages.

And Orphic purity was mainly, though not entirely, the result of moral discipline.

It ran in the direction of Orphic and Bacchic Thrace to the north.

"Starving will kill as dead as hanging," was Lieders's Orphic response to this.

The pantheism of the Orphic theology is constantly apparent.

Word Value for Orphic
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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