Orphicallyadv.
/ˈɔːfᵻkli/, U.S. /ˈɔrfəkli/ In an Orphic manner; oracularly.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > [adverb] > in the manner of Orphism
Orphically1678
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 307 The whole Produced or Created Universe, with all its Variety of things in it; which yet are Orphically said to be God also, in a certain other sence.
1816 I. Taylor in Pamphleteer 8 477 Hence Socrates calls the multitude Orphically Thyrsus-bearers.
1871 Harper's Mag. Nov. 931/2 Even the dialect poetry has, as Mr. Alcott would orphically express it, an evident genesis.
1982 Amer. Lit. 54 605 He offers us oracles in which various connections are orphically asserted only because he happens to think of two things together.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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