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Orpheus +‎ -an

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Orphean (comparative more Orphean, superlative most Orphean)

  1. Of or pertaining to Orpheus, the mythical poet and musician.
    • 1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page v. 123:
      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.

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