Orphicadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈɔːfɪk/, U.S.

/ˈɔrfɪk/

Forms: 1600s–1700s orphick, 1700s– orphic.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin Orphicus; Greek Ὀρϕικός.

Etymology: < classical Latin Orphicus attributed to or associated with Orpheus, or its etymon ancient Greek Ὀρϕικός < Ὀρϕεύς Orpheus (see Orphean adj. and n.) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare French orphique (1545 in Middle French as orfique in hymnes orfiques ), Italian orfico (a1375). Compare earlier Orphean adj., Orphical adj. With use as noun compare earlier Orphean n., Orpheist n.In sense A. 3 after French orphique (1913 in cubisme orphique); compare:1913 G. Apollinaire Méditations Esthétiques vii. 25 Le cubisme orphique est l'autre grande tendance de la peinture moderne. C'est l'art de peindre des ensembles nouveaux avec des éléments empruntés non à la réalité visuelle, mais entièrement créés par l'artiste. Compare the following isolated attestation of the form orpheique (adjective), probably < Middle French orpheique (1545) < post-classical Latin Orpheicus (beginning of the 5th cent.), alteration of classical Latin Orphicus:1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxxv. 155 The Græcians were called Orpheique.

A. adj.

a. Belonging, attributed, or likened to Orpheus, or to the esoteric knowledge, writings, or doctrines associated with him; of the cult of Orphism; (hence) oracular.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > the occult > [adjective] > of or following Orphism

Orphical1618

Orphic1656

Orpheana1706

Orphizing1884

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. vii. 4 Being initiated into the Orphick solemnities, the Priest telling him, that they who were initiated into those rites [etc.].

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 250 According to the Orphick Tradition, this Love which the Cosmogonia was derived from, was no other than the Eternal Unmade Deity.

1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. iii. 177 That Orphic sentence mentioned by Ficinus, Ζεὺς εἶδος πάντων, Jupiter is the form, species, or idea, of all things.

1813 P. B. Shelley in E. Dowden Life (1887) I. 396 I intend..to reason in my preface concerning the Orphic and Pythagoric system of diet.

1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xvi. 170 ‘No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike,’ said I, with a degree of Orphic wisdom that astonished myself.

1880 F. W. H. Myers Stanzas on Shelley in Macmillan's Mag. No. 245. 392 Yet, with an Orphic whisper blent, A Spirit in the west-wind sighs.

1964 S. Bellow Herzog (1965) 197 You want to put me on a higher level and bring out the Orphic element in me.

1995 Economist 21 Oct. 55/1 Mr. Zolotov also encourages men to attend (presumably to teach them how to duplicate his orphic powers with wives or lovers).

b. Orphic egg: the earth or world, supposed in Orphic doctrine to be egg-shaped.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > [noun]

all the worldeOE

mouldOE

worldOE

earthOE

earthricheOE

foldOE

worldricheOE

motherOE

wonec1275

mound?a1300

wildernessa1340

mappemondea1393

lower worlda1398

the whole worlda1513

orba1550

the (also this) globe1553

the earthly globe1553

mother earth1568

the glimpses of the moon1603

universe1630

outer world1661

terrene1667

Orphic egg1684

Midgard1770

all outdoors1833

Planet Earth1858

overworld1911

Spaceship Earth1966

1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 280 The opinion of the oval figure of the earth is ascrib'd to Orpheus and his disciples; and the doctrine of the mundane egg is so peculiarly his, that 'tis call'd by Proclus the Orphick egg.

1708 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth (ed. 2) ii. 222 Nothing was more celebrated than the Original..Orphick Egg, in the most early Authors.

1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 228 The mundane, or as Proclus calls it, the orphick egg, is possibly the earliest of all methods taken to explain the rise, progress, and final conclusion of our earth and atmosphere.

1840–1 T. Moore Poet. Wks. X. iv. 349 So many minor Myst'ries, imps of fraud, From the great Orphic Egg have wing'd abroad.

1952 Philos. Q. 2 105 (note) A supposed gonimon in Anaximander and the Orphic Egg.

1994 P. Marshall Nature's Web 374 Like the ancient Greek creation myth of the Orphic egg, it suggests that all things came from a common living source.

2. Of the nature of the music of Orpheus, or the verses attributed to him; melodious, entrancing, ravishing.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > melodious or harmonious

sweetc900

merryOE

softc1230

accordanta1325

well-soundingc1350

cordant1382

sootc1385

songfula1400

melodiousa1425

sugaredc1430

well-toneda1500

tunable1504

dulcea1513

equivalenta1513

consonant?1521

harmonicala1527

harmoniousc1550

consorteda1586

Orphean1593

concentful1595

melodical1596

sweet-recording1598

tuneful1598

sirenical1599

high-tuned1603

nightingale-like1611

soundful?1615

according1626

modulaminous1637

undiscording1645

canorous1646

symphonious1652

concinnous1654

consonous1654

harmonic1667

sirenica1704

symphonial1773

concentual1782

chantant1785

Memnonian1800

melodized1807

Orphic1817

undiscordant1819

concentuous1850

fluting1852

melodic1871

well-orchestrated1872

jarless1876

tuny1885

tunesome1890

1817 S. T. Coleridge To Gentleman in Sibyll. Leaves 199 An orphic song indeed, A song divine of high and passionate thoughts, To their own Music chaunted!

1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 18 To pass over the Orphic hymns of David.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 144 Language is a perpetual orphic song.

1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. x. 239 Homer and Hesiod, and those old Orphic singers, were of another mind.

1920 C. M. Doughty Mansoul iv. 92 I heard him cite yesterday that Orphic Verse.

1990 Times (Nexis) 2 Mar. (Features section) At a daringly lazy tempo, he hypnotised us with a positively Orphic charm.

3. Art. Of, relating to, or characteristic of Orphism (see Orphism n. 2).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > Orphic or Synchromic

Orphist1914

Synchromistic1916

Synchromist1936

Orphic1950

1914 A. J. Eddy Cubists & Post-Impressionism (1915) v. 69 Cubism Orphique is created entirely by the artist; it takes nothing from visual, objective realities, but is derived wholly from the painter's imagination; it is pure art.]

1950 D. Cooper tr. M. Raynal Hist. Mod. Painting III. 52 Apollinaire used to distinguish between ‘scientific Cubism’, ‘physical Cubism’, ‘instinctive Cubism’ and ‘Orphic Cubism’.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 594/3 Apollinaire's use of the word ‘Orphic’ recalls both the Symbolist painters' use of the term ‘Orphic Art’..and the poetry of Orpheus.

1988 J. Golding Cubism (ed. 3) 24 Apollinaire, who in Les Peintres Cubistes had defined Orphic Cubism as being represented only by Delaunay, Lèger, Picabia, Duchamp and Picasso.

B. n.

1. An initiate or adherent of Orphism (see Orphism n. 1). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > the occult > [noun] > Orphism > adherent of

Orpheotelesta1610

Orpheist1678

Orphean1818

Orphica1820

a1820 C.-F. Volney Volney's Ruins (1869) 150 (note) The Bonzes are those very Orphics represented by Plutarch as quacks, who ate no meat, sold talismans, stones, etc.

1899 R. H. Charles Eschatol. iii. 149 This doctrine first appears among the Orphics.

1988 Classical Rev. 38 295 The jostling with Gnostics, Manichees,..Orphics,..Jews and Christians contributes to a multicoloured scenario.

†2. An Orphic song or hymn. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > other types of song

roundelaya1475

black sanctus?1533

pastorella1597

orgial1610

balow1613

comic song1718

hunting-song1727

vaudeville1739

apopemptic1753

melologue1820

Orphic1855

wren song1855

air de cour1878

Kunstlied1880

action song1883

come-all-you1887

marching song1894

party song1911

theme song1929

honky-tonker1950

protest song1953

sing-along1959

slow jam1961

talking blues1969

rap1979

1855 C. Kingsley Argonauts in Heroes iv. 108 They call them the Songs of Orpheus, or the Orphics, to this day.

1856 T. H. Chivers Birth-day Song of Liberty 11 From the Orphics of Prophets to the Clarion of Luther, Whose words fell like Meteors from God's Armory driven.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	orphic
释义	Orphicadj.n. Brit. /ˈɔːfɪk/, U.S. /ˈɔrfɪk/ Forms: 1600s–1700s orphick, 1700s– orphic. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin Orphicus; Greek Ὀρϕικός. Etymology: < classical Latin Orphicus attributed to or associated with Orpheus, or its etymon ancient Greek Ὀρϕικός < Ὀρϕεύς Orpheus (see Orphean adj. and n.) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare French orphique (1545 in Middle French as orfique in hymnes orfiques ), Italian orfico (a1375). Compare earlier Orphean adj., Orphical adj. With use as noun compare earlier Orphean n., Orpheist n.In sense A. 3 after French orphique (1913 in cubisme orphique); compare:1913 G. Apollinaire Méditations Esthétiques vii. 25 Le cubisme orphique est l'autre grande tendance de la peinture moderne. C'est l'art de peindre des ensembles nouveaux avec des éléments empruntés non à la réalité visuelle, mais entièrement créés par l'artiste. Compare the following isolated attestation of the form orpheique (adjective), probably < Middle French orpheique (1545) < post-classical Latin Orpheicus (beginning of the 5th cent.), alteration of classical Latin Orphicus:1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxxv. 155 The Græcians were called Orpheique. A. adj. 1. a. Belonging, attributed, or likened to Orpheus, or to the esoteric knowledge, writings, or doctrines associated with him; of the cult of Orphism; (hence) oracular. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > [adjective] > of or following Orphism Orphical1618 Orphic1656 Orpheana1706 Orphizing1884 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. vii. 4 Being initiated into the Orphick solemnities, the Priest telling him, that they who were initiated into those rites [etc.]. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 250 According to the Orphick Tradition, this Love which the Cosmogonia was derived from, was no other than the Eternal Unmade Deity. 1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. iii. 177 That Orphic sentence mentioned by Ficinus, Ζεὺς εἶδος πάντων, Jupiter is the form, species, or idea, of all things. 1813 P. B. Shelley in E. Dowden Life (1887) I. 396 I intend..to reason in my preface concerning the Orphic and Pythagoric system of diet. 1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xvi. 170 ‘No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike,’ said I, with a degree of Orphic wisdom that astonished myself. 1880 F. W. H. Myers Stanzas on Shelley in Macmillan's Mag. No. 245. 392 Yet, with an Orphic whisper blent, A Spirit in the west-wind sighs. 1964 S. Bellow Herzog (1965) 197 You want to put me on a higher level and bring out the Orphic element in me. 1995 Economist 21 Oct. 55/1 Mr. Zolotov also encourages men to attend (presumably to teach them how to duplicate his orphic powers with wives or lovers). b. Orphic egg: the earth or world, supposed in Orphic doctrine to be egg-shaped. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > [noun] all the worldeOE mouldOE worldOE earthOE earthricheOE foldOE worldricheOE motherOE wonec1275 mound?a1300 wildernessa1340 mappemondea1393 lower worlda1398 the whole worlda1513 orba1550 the (also this) globe1553 the earthly globe1553 mother earth1568 the glimpses of the moon1603 universe1630 outer world1661 terrene1667 Orphic egg1684 Midgard1770 all outdoors1833 Planet Earth1858 overworld1911 Spaceship Earth1966 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 280 The opinion of the oval figure of the earth is ascrib'd to Orpheus and his disciples; and the doctrine of the mundane egg is so peculiarly his, that 'tis call'd by Proclus the Orphick egg. 1708 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth (ed. 2) ii. 222 Nothing was more celebrated than the Original..Orphick Egg, in the most early Authors. 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 228 The mundane, or as Proclus calls it, the orphick egg, is possibly the earliest of all methods taken to explain the rise, progress, and final conclusion of our earth and atmosphere. 1840–1 T. Moore Poet. Wks. X. iv. 349 So many minor Myst'ries, imps of fraud, From the great Orphic Egg have wing'd abroad. 1952 Philos. Q. 2 105 (note) A supposed gonimon in Anaximander and the Orphic Egg. 1994 P. Marshall Nature's Web 374 Like the ancient Greek creation myth of the Orphic egg, it suggests that all things came from a common living source. 2. Of the nature of the music of Orpheus, or the verses attributed to him; melodious, entrancing, ravishing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > melodious or harmonious sweetc900 merryOE softc1230 accordanta1325 well-soundingc1350 cordant1382 sootc1385 songfula1400 melodiousa1425 sugaredc1430 well-toneda1500 tunable1504 dulcea1513 equivalenta1513 consonant?1521 harmonicala1527 harmoniousc1550 consorteda1586 Orphean1593 concentful1595 melodical1596 sweet-recording1598 tuneful1598 sirenical1599 high-tuned1603 nightingale-like1611 soundful?1615 according1626 modulaminous1637 undiscording1645 canorous1646 symphonious1652 concinnous1654 consonous1654 harmonic1667 sirenica1704 symphonial1773 concentual1782 chantant1785 Memnonian1800 melodized1807 Orphic1817 undiscordant1819 concentuous1850 fluting1852 melodic1871 well-orchestrated1872 jarless1876 tuny1885 tunesome1890 1817 S. T. Coleridge To Gentleman in Sibyll. Leaves 199 An orphic song indeed, A song divine of high and passionate thoughts, To their own Music chaunted! 1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 18 To pass over the Orphic hymns of David. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 144 Language is a perpetual orphic song. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. x. 239 Homer and Hesiod, and those old Orphic singers, were of another mind. 1920 C. M. Doughty Mansoul iv. 92 I heard him cite yesterday that Orphic Verse. 1990 Times (Nexis) 2 Mar. (Features section) At a daringly lazy tempo, he hypnotised us with a positively Orphic charm. 3. Art. Of, relating to, or characteristic of Orphism (see Orphism n. 2). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > Orphic or Synchromic Orphist1914 Synchromistic1916 Synchromist1936 Orphic1950 1914 A. J. Eddy Cubists & Post-Impressionism (1915) v. 69 Cubism Orphique is created entirely by the artist; it takes nothing from visual, objective realities, but is derived wholly from the painter's imagination; it is pure art.] 1950 D. Cooper tr. M. Raynal Hist. Mod. Painting III. 52 Apollinaire used to distinguish between ‘scientific Cubism’, ‘physical Cubism’, ‘instinctive Cubism’ and ‘Orphic Cubism’. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 594/3 Apollinaire's use of the word ‘Orphic’ recalls both the Symbolist painters' use of the term ‘Orphic Art’..and the poetry of Orpheus. 1988 J. Golding Cubism (ed. 3) 24 Apollinaire, who in Les Peintres Cubistes had defined Orphic Cubism as being represented only by Delaunay, Lèger, Picabia, Duchamp and Picasso. B. n. 1. An initiate or adherent of Orphism (see Orphism n. 1). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > [noun] > Orphism > adherent of Orpheotelesta1610 Orpheist1678 Orphean1818 Orphica1820 a1820 C.-F. Volney Volney's Ruins (1869) 150 (note) The Bonzes are those very Orphics represented by Plutarch as quacks, who ate no meat, sold talismans, stones, etc. 1899 R. H. Charles Eschatol. iii. 149 This doctrine first appears among the Orphics. 1988 Classical Rev. 38 295 The jostling with Gnostics, Manichees,..Orphics,..Jews and Christians contributes to a multicoloured scenario. †2. An Orphic song or hymn. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > other types of song roundelaya1475 black sanctus?1533 pastorella1597 orgial1610 balow1613 comic song1718 hunting-song1727 vaudeville1739 apopemptic1753 melologue1820 Orphic1855 wren song1855 air de cour1878 Kunstlied1880 action song1883 come-all-you1887 marching song1894 party song1911 theme song1929 honky-tonker1950 protest song1953 sing-along1959 slow jam1961 talking blues1969 rap1979 1855 C. Kingsley Argonauts in Heroes iv. 108 They call them the Songs of Orpheus, or the Orphics, to this day. 1856 T. H. Chivers Birth-day Song of Liberty 11 From the Orphics of Prophets to the Clarion of Luther, Whose words fell like Meteors from God's Armory driven. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1656
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