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Osirian

Osirian adjective: of or pertaining to Osiris.

Adjective

Osirian (comparative more Osirian, superlative most Osirian)

  1. Of or pertaining to Osiris.
    • It is, indeed, part of the ritual of the candidate for adeptship into the British mysteries, resembling that for the neophyte into the Osirian, Cabiric or Orphean mysteries.1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page v. 123
    • Nevertheless it is a potentiality, for out of it rises the beetle, the sign for "form" and "coming into being." In the next, the Osirian stage, the night sun penetrates to the Underworld and its rays fall upon the soul in its new form as the body of Osiris.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 242

Forms of Osirian

comparativemore Osirian
superlativemost Osirian

Origin of Osirian

From Osiris + -ian.

Questions about Osirian

What does Osirian mean?
Osirian means of or pertaining to Osiris.
What part of speech is Osirian?
Osirian is an adjective.

Words near Osirian in the dictionary

  1. Osimov
  2. Osimova
  3. Osino
  4. OSINT
  5. Osipovichi
  6. Osirian
  7. Osiric
  8. Osiride
  9. Osiridean
  10. Osiridian
  11. Osirification

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