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Orphic eggs

Orphic eggs is the plural of Orphic egg.

Meaning of Orphic egg

Noun

Orphic egg (plural Orphic eggs)

  1. (historical) An ovoid vessel formerly used by alchemists for sublimation; an aludel.
    • The vessel used for containing the necessary substances was egg-shaped; the matrix, or Orphic egg, which is found at the base of all initiations.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 130

Questions about Orphic eggs

What is Orphic eggs the plural of?
Orphic eggs is the plural of Orphic egg.

Words near Orphic eggs in the dictionary

  1. orpherion
  2. orpherions
  3. Orpheus
  4. Orphic
  5. Orphic egg
  6. Orphic eggs
  7. Orphical
  8. Orphically
  9. Orphicism
  10. Orphics
  11. orphing

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