ophite
1 of 2noun (1)
-fīt
plural -s
: any of various usually green and often mottled or blotched rocks (as a serpentine or serpentine marble)
Ophite
2 of 2noun (2)
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plural -s
: a member of a Gnostic sect or group of sects including the Naassenes and Perates that revered the serpent as the symbol of the hidden divine wisdom and as having befriended Adam and Eve by persuading them to eat of the tree of knowledge
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Latin, from Greek ophitēs (lithos), literally, serpentine stone, from ophitēs like a snake, from ophis
Noun (2)
Late Latin Ophitae, plural, from Late Greek Ophitai, plural, from Greek ophis snake + -itae, plural of -ites -ite
- put stress on
- put that idea out of your head
- put that in your pipe and smoke it
- put that out of one's mind
- put that/it out of one's mind
- put the arm on
- put the baby up for adoption
- put the bite on
- put the car in gear
- put the car into gear
- put the cart before the horse
- put the children to bed
- put the fear of god into
- put the fear of God into (someone)
- put the fear of god into someone
- put the finger on
- put the fire out
- put the hurt on
- put the kibosh on
- put the lid on
- put the make on
- put the moves on
- put the pedal to the metal
- put the phone down on
- put the phone down on (someone)