orphic
/awr-fik/US // ˈɔr fɪk //UK // (ˈɔːfɪk) //
口头禅,颂歌式,颂歌,口语法
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : of or relating to Orpheus.
- : resembling the music attributed to Orpheus; entrancing.
- : pertaining to a religious or philosophical school maintaining a form of the cult of Dionysus, or Bacchus, ascribed to Orpheus as founder: Orphic mysteries.
- : mystic; oracular.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as inobscure
Synonyms
as inoccult
as inprofound
as inrecondite
as inentrancing
Synonyms
Antonyms
as inmystical
as indeep
Examples
It will now be profitable if we examine the story of Sanchoniathon and the statements of the Orphic Hymns.
We may suppose that the Orphic poems were collected, edited and probably interpolated, in this dark hour of Greece.
On the whole, however, our Orphic authorities can never be quoted with much satisfaction.
The authors of the Orphic cosmogony appear to have begun with some remarks on Time ((Greek text omitted)).
And the whole account is symbolical, we think, consciously symbolical; it has an Orphic tinge, hinting of mystic rites.
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