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Orphics

Orphics is the plural of Orphic.

Meaning of Orphic

Noun

Orphic (plural Orphics)

  1. (Greek) A follower of Orphism.
    • In particular, Plato often refers to the “Orphics” and mentions the “Orphic life” (Orphikoi tines legomenoi bioi, Laws 782c). Plato clearly distinguished the Orphics and the Pythagoreans. To speak very generally, the Orphics believed that the soul had a divine beginning but fell from the gods due...2021, Andrea Nightingale, Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 137

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Questions about Orphics

What is Orphics the plural of?
Orphics is the plural of Orphic.

Words near Orphics in the dictionary

  1. Orphic egg
  2. Orphic eggs
  3. Orphical
  4. Orphically
  5. Orphicism
  6. Orphics
  7. orphing
  8. orphings
  9. Orphism
  10. Orphist
  11. Orphists

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