Ophite

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ophite \O"phite\, n. [L. Ophitae, pl. See {Ophite}, a.] (Eccl.
     Hist.)
     A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second
     century.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ophite \O"phite\, a. [Gr. 'ofi`ths, fr. 'o`fis a serpent.]
     Of or pertaining to a serpent. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ophite \O"phite\, n. [L. ophites, Gr. 'ofi`ths (sc. ?), a kind
     of marble spotted like a serpent: cf. F. ophite.] (Min.)
     A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene
     has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness.
     So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled
     appearance. -- {O*phi"ic}, a.
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