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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: Orphic mysteries.
  4. (often lowercase) mystic; oracular.

adjective

  1. of or relating to Orpheus or Orphism
  2. (sometimes not capital) mystical or occult

adj.1670s, from Greek orphikos “pertaining to Orpheus,” master musician of Thrace, son of Eagrus and Calliope, husband of Eurydice, whose name (of unknown origin) was associated with mystic doctrines. Related: Orphism.

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