Usage examples (25)

• Adjective : orphic mysteries
• In connection with one of his legends, the myth of Dionysus Zagreus, we find traces of an esoteric doctrine, taught by what were known as the orphic sects, very...
• Greek lyric poetry lost much of its orphic electricity as Hellenic civilization evolved, and not simply for want of fresh Sapphos.
• He wanted to introduce if not explain something so ineffable and orphic to which a mortal could only awkwardly utter that inadequate word,