Crossword-Solution: OPHITE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ophite | a. | Of or pertaining to a serpent. |
| Ophite | n. | A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness. So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled appearance. |
| Ophite | a. | A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OPHITE | anagram | ETHIOP, PEITHO |
We have 2 clues for the answer “OPHITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Green mottled rock. | 1 answer |
| Kind of marble spotted like a serpent. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AMCEZE
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eruption
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Sentences with OPHITE (5)
Deane says: "The whole ceremony may be considered as a lively representation of an ophite procession as it advanced through the sinuous paralleiths of Karnak.
Very different from this is the ancient serpentine or ophite of Sparta called the _Lapis Lacedæmonius_, found in different hills near Krokee, or in Mount Taygetus in Lacedæmon, where the old quarry has recently been opened.
Rounde about the steale whiche helde vp the vessell, foure Harpies of Golde did stand, with their clawes and tallented feete vpon the smoothe Table of the Ophite.
Most wise Nymph, in my comming out of the subterraneall vast darksome place, as I passed on, I came to a goodlie bridge, and vppon the same, in a Porphyrite stone vppon the one side, and an Ophite vpon the other, I beheld engrauen certaine Hieragliphs, both which I did interprete, but I stoode doubtfull of certaine branches, that were tyed to the hornes of the scalpe of the Oxe, and the rather because they were in the Porphyrite stone, and not in the Ophit vpon the other side.
The Ophite God Osiris, the same as Apollo, was by the Amonians styled Oph-El, and Ope-El: and there was upon the Sinus Persicus a city Opis, where his rites were observed.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1961–1965).