Adjective : orphic mysteries.    From Dictionary.com. 

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 curiously opposed, one would have said, to the general trend of Greek conceptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greek View of Life] Reference

Greek lyric poetry lost much of its orphic electricity as Hellenic civilization evolved, and not simply for want of fresh Sapphos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetry Pages - 98.06.10] Reference

He wanted to introduce if not explain something so ineffable and orphic to which a mortal could only awkwardly utter that inadequate word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference

The relative silence was interrupted by plaintive, orphic sounds of a flute played by a uniformed high school student who sat stiffly on the steps leading into the monument.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference

During that same time in art history, however, you had the impressionists, the post-impressionists, the cubists, the orphic (abstract) cubists, the abstract branch of the surrealists, the abstract expressionists, the color-field painters, the minimalists and the beginnings of the postminimalists and conceptual art.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 'Greatest' Cliche] Reference

In many ways it besot him like orphic sound to a musician, or the tenebrisms of artists (Carvaggios like himself); but nonetheless he continued to project blame at the bearded anathema beneath him, and he still glanced down periodically at the floor hoping to find the putative agents of the odor, evidence to bolster his bilious conclusions, being in full denial of himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference

Erasmus supply General Tecumseh Sherman the germ of a famous orphic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers] Reference

Thus do we see that the orphic habit was already beginning to germinate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen] Reference

"Starving will kill as dead as hanging," was Lieders's orphic response to this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of a Western Town] Reference

Amber failed to educe from him any satisfactory explanation of this orphic utterance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bronze Bell] Reference

These are the oracles and orphic words that get lodged in the mind and bend a man's most stubborn will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emerson and Other Essays] Reference

The most ardent of their votaries must flush in generous deprecation when those orphic inquiries flow from lips quite as divine as their own.    From Wordnik.com.  [London Films] Reference

In orphic language and with copybook maxims, they all attempt the peculiarly American feat of relating the arcane and the infinite with dollar-&-cents success.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

John Brown type, a John Brown ideal, a John Brown principle, which we were somehow (with long pauses between the vague, orphic phrases) to cherish, and to nourish ourselves upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference

The title track, on the other hand, features a haunted, orphic voice wandering amid an orchestral soundscape of strings and jazzy keyboard, layering long, stretched-out textures to create a sonic region of lost souls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from The Sun] Reference

Once a lady took him for a carriage ride, and on learning from the footman that they were seven miles from home he was so displeased that he refused to utter a single orphic on the way back; and further, the story is that he never after entered a vehicle, and living for thirty years was never again so far from the lodging he called home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference

Touch the orphic Martian rocks!.    From Wordnik.com.  [From On High] Reference

"And they have such an orphic character, too; you can interpret them in so many different ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Summer] Reference

In orphic spectacles like this, lays hold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toward the Gulf] Reference

Is language acquisition uncanny or orphic?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nation: Top Stories] Reference

A hominid or something quite orphic?.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference

And is usually assumed to be of orphic origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [DEATH AND IMMORTALITY] Reference

An orphic song indeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of Coleridge] Reference

The so-called orphic hymns (Abel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference