Orphean
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Orphean (comparative more Orphean, superlative most Orphean)
- Of or pertaining to Orpheus, the mythical poet and musician.
- 1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page v. 123:
- It is, indeed, part of the ritual of the candidate for adeptship into the British mysteries, resembling that for the neophyte into the Osirian, Cabiric or Orphean mysteries.