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Orphic, a. (n.)|ˈɔːfɪk|
[ad. Gr. Ὀρϕικ-ός (in L. Orphic-us), f. Ὀρϕεύς Orpheus: see -ic.]
A. adj.
1. a. Of, belonging or attributed to, or connected with Orpheus, the mysteries associated with his name, or the writings or doctrines subsequently attributed to him (see Orphean); hence, oracular.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §14. 250 According to the Orphick Tradition, this Love which the Cosmogonia was derived from, was no other than the Eternal Vnmade Deity. 1701Norris Ideal World i. iii. 177 That Orphic sentence mentioned by Ficinus, Ζεὺς εἶδος πάντων, Jupiter is the form, species, or idea, of all things. 1813Shelley in Dowden Life (1887) I. 396, I intend..to reason in my preface concerning the Orphic and Pythagoric system of diet. 1816D. Stewart Dissert. Progr. Philos. ii. iii. (1858) 304 note, The old Orphic verses, quoted in the treatise Περὶ κόσµου, ascribed to Aristotle. 1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. xvi. (1883) 483 ‘No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike’, said I, with a degree of Orphic wisdom that astonished me. 1880Athenæum 20 Nov. 680/3 They are founded on the mystic Orphic doctrine, and seem to be part of the sacred book of the initiated in those mysteries. 1880F. W. H. Myers Stanzas on Shelley in Macm. Mag. No. 245. 392 Yet, with an Orphic whisper blent, A Spirit in the west-wind sighs.
b. Orphic egg, a term applied to the earth or world, as being held to be egg-shaped.
1684T. Burnet Th. Earth i. 280 The opinion of the oval figure of the earth is ascrib'd to Orpheus and his disciples; and the doctrine of the mundane egg is so peculiarly his, that 'tis call'd by Proclus the Orphick egg. 1696Whiston Th. Earth iii. (1722) 233 Nothing was more celebrated than the Original..Orphick Egg, in the most early Authors. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France, etc. I. 228 The mundane, or as Proclus calls it, the orphick egg, is possibly the earliest of all methods taken to explain the rise, progress, and final conclusion of our earth and atmosphere.
2. Of the nature of the music of Orpheus, or the verses attributed to him; melodious, entrancing, ravishing.
1817Coleridge Sibyl. Leaves (1862) 204 An orphic song indeed, A song divine of high and passionate thoughts, To their own music chaunted! 1820Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 18 To pass over the Orphic hymns of David. 1821Shelley Prometh. Unb. iv. i. 421 Language is a perpetual orphic song. 1853Kingsley Hypatia xxv, Homer and Hesiod, and those old Orphic singers, were of another mind.
3. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Orphism (Orphism 2).
[1913G. Apollinaire Méditations Esthétiques vii. 25 Le cubisme orphique est l'autre grande tendance de la peinture moderne. C'est l'art de peindre des ensembles nouveaux avec des éléments empruntés non à la réalité visuelle, mais entièrement créés par l'artiste. 1914A. J. Eddy Cubists & Post-Impressionism (1915) v. 69 Cubism Orphique is created entirely by the artist; it takes nothing from visual, objective realities, but is derived wholly from the painter's imagination; it is pure art.] 1950D. Cooper tr. Raynal's Hist. Mod. Painting III. 52 Apollinaire used to distinguish between ‘scientific Cubism’, ‘physical Cubism’, ‘instinctive Cubism’ and ‘Orphic Cubism’. 1959Listener 19 Nov. 869/1 He [sc. Apollinaire] distinguished two kinds of pure Cubism—scientific and Orphic... Orphic Cubism..dealt with the universe of mind and imagination, the inner world. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 594/3 Apollinaire's use of the word ‘Orphic’ recalls both the Symbolist painters' use of the term ‘Orphic Art’..and the poetry of Orpheus.
B. n.
1. An Orphic song or hymn: chiefly in pl.
1855Kingsley Heroes, Argon. iv. 108 They call them the Songs of Orpheus, or the Orphics, to this day.
2. A member of the Orphic school of philosophy.
1897Edin. Rev. Apr. 461 These tablets were buried with the deceased Orphic. 1899R. H. Charles Eschatol. iii. 149 This doctrine first appears among the Orphics.
So ˈOrphical a. = Orphic; ˈOrphically adv., after the manner of the Orphic writings, doctrines, mysteries, etc.; ˈOrphicism = Orphism.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §17. 294 Aristotle seems to have meant no more than this, that there was no such Poet as Orpheus Senior to Homer, or that the Verses vulgarly called *Orphical, were not written by Orpheus. Ibid. 300 We cannot believe all that to be genuine which is produced by ancient Fathers as Orphical.
Ibid. 307 The whole Produced or Created Universe, with all its Variety of things in it; which yet are *Orphically said to be God also, in a certain other sence. 1816I. Taylor in Pamphleteer VIII. 477 Hence Socrates calls the multitude Orphically Thyrsus-bearers.
a1849Poe W. E. Channing Wks. 1864 III. 239 More profound than the *Orphicism of Alcott. |