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orphic::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, secret |
orphic:: | Spocien Dictionary
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| Derivation | orpheus |
Examples of orphic
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Barka's orphic works require intuitive rather than logical comprehension.
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Orphic views and practices have parallels to elements of Pythagoreanism.
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It is strange that this orphic saint who dined on clouds became a prophet of the culture's materialism.
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Since existence is a mystery, and cannot be seen or touched or understood like a common physical fact, he has developed a peculiarly orphic language of gesture and intonation.
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- Ascribed to Orpheus or characteristic of ideas in works ascribed to Orpheus
- Mysterious: having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients"
- Orphism (more rarely Orphicism; Ancient Greek: u1F48u03C1u03C6u03B9u03BAu03AC) is the name given to a set of religious beliefs and practices originating in the Ancient Greek and the Hellenistic world, as well as by the Thracians, associated with literature ascribed to the mythical poet Orpheus, who descended into Hades and returned...
- Orphism or Orphic Cubism, a term coined by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1912, was an offshoot of Cubism that focused on pure abstraction and bright colors, influenced by Fauvism, the theoretical writings of Paul Signac, Charles Henry and the dye chemist Eugu00E8ne Chevreul...
- (Orphism) A particularly obscure mystery cult in which devotees were initiated into the secrets of moral transfiguration and future immortality.
- (Orphism) A term first used in 1912 to describe cubism as practiced by Robert and Sonia Delaunay, which emphasized color and the analysis of light and its connection with nature as indicated by arrangements of interlocking planes of contrasting or complementary colors. ...
- (Orphism) French art movement developed and derived from Cubism, focusing more on the application of colour in painting and influenced by music. An exponent of this movement is Robert Delaunay
- (Orphism) a mystic Greek religion offering purification of the soul from innate evil and release from the cycle of reincarnation.^1
- Orpheus, of Greek mythology (as in Orphic Mysteries)
