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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Or•phic (ôr′fik),USA pronunciation adj. - of or pertaining to Orpheus.
- Music and Danceresembling the music attributed to Orpheus;
entrancing. - Philosophypertaining to a religious or philosophical school maintaining a form of the cult of Dionysus, or Bacchus, ascribed to Orpheus as founder:Orphic mysteries.
- (often l.c.) mystic;
oracular.
- Greek Orphikós (cognate with Latin Orphicus), equivalent. to Orph(eús) Orpheus + -ikos -ic
- 1670–80
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