Definition of Orphically

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orphically

orphanry
orphans
orphans' asylum
orphanship
orphanships
orpharion
orpharions
orpheite
orpheline
orphenadrine
orphenadrine citrate
orphenadrine hydrochloride
orpheus
orphic
orphical
orphically (current term)
orphism
orphisms
orphrey
orphreyed
orphreys
orpiment
orpiments
orpin
orpine
orpines
orpins
orra
orrach
orrachs

Literary usage of Orphically

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison (1908)
"The sense is : " I come from the orphically-initiated, O Queen of the orphically-initiated." 3, 4, 5, 8. ..."

2. The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh to the by Thomas Warton (1824)
"... any more than Homer when he described the contest between Vulcan and the Scamander, believed himself "to be philosophizing orphically," to speak with ..."

3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1820)
"... with all its variety of things in it ; which yet are orphically said to be God also in a certain other sense, that shall be declared afterward. ..."

4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... with all its variety of things in it ; which yet are orphically said to be God also in a certain other sense, that shall be declared afterward. ..."

5. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"... with all its variety of things in it; which yet are orphically said to be God also in a certain other sense, that shall be declared afterward. ..."

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