Crossword-Solution: ORPHIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Orphic | a. | Pertaining to Orpheus; Orphean; as, Orphic hymns. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “ORPHIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| mystical or occult | 1 answer |
| Sweetly musical. | 1 answer |
| ORPHEAN | 1 answer |
| ORPHEUS, like the music of | 2 answers |
| ASCRIBED TO ORPHEUS OR CHARACTERISTIC OF IDEAS IN WORKS ASCRIBED TO ORPHEUS | 11 answers |
| entrancing | 31 answers |
| Melodious | 37 answers |
| Abstruse | 76 answers |
| Esoteric | 78 answers |
| paradoxical | 78 answers |
| Mystical | 78 answers |
| Oracular | 80 answers |
| complicated | 83 answers |
| Curious | 86 answers |
| Shadowy | 86 answers |
| Mysterious | 87 answers |
| Problematic | 88 answers |
| cloudy | 89 answers |
| Unclear | 92 answers |
| DIM ___ | 94 answers |
| Dark | 112 answers |
| Obscure | 120 answers |
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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
EMCZEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ORPHIC (5)
But the Goddess Night, as we learn from the Orphic poet, was the very same person as Venus; and he celebrates her as the parent of the Universe, and as the general mother both of the hero-gods and of man.
Ymer and Omoroca are each the same as that hermaphrodite Jupiter of the Orphic theology." We have observed, however, that in all the older traditions this hermaphrodite conception is accounted as female, it is the Great Mother within whom is contained the male; in later ages, however, it is represented as male, the female being concealed beneath convenient symbols.
Their old sweet song came down the wind, Remembered music waxing strong, Ah now no need of cords to bind, No need had we of Orphic song.
Their old sweet song came down the wind, Remembered music waxing strong,— Ah now no need of cords to bind, No need had we of Orphic song.
The Orphic congregations of later times, in their most holy gatherings, solemnly partook of the blood of a bull, which was by a mystery the blood of Dionysus-Zagreus himself, the Bull of God, slain in sacrifice for the purification of man." (2) (1) See Notes to his translation of the Bacch[ae] of Euripides.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1963–1990).