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Ophite
Ophite or Ophitic may refer to: Ophites, an ancient Gnostic sect in Syria and Egypt Ophite or verd antique, a type of serpentinite building stone Ophitic wikipedia.org
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Ophite
Ophite, n.2 Eccl. Hist. (ˈɒfaɪt) [a. late L. Ophītæ (Isidore Orig. viii. v.), a. Gr. Ὀϕῖται (Hippolytus, etc.), pl. of Ὀϕίτης, f. ὄϕις serpent: see -ite1 1.] A member of a sect which arose about the 2nd century, who paid reverence to the serpent as an embodiment of divine wisdom.1692 W. Wotton tr. D... Oxford English Dictionary
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ophite
▪ I. ophite, n.1 Min. (ˈɒfaɪt) Also 7 ophit. [ad. L. ophītēs (Pliny), a. Gr. ὀϕίτης (sc. λίθος) serpentine stone, f. ὄϕι-ς serpent: see -ite1 2 b.] Name for various eruptive or metamorphic rocks, usually green, and having spots or markings like a serpent; serpentine; serpentine marble.[1398 Trevisa ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Ophite Diagrams
The Ophite Diagrams are ritual and esoteric diagrams used by the Ophite sect of Gnosticism, who revered the serpent from the Garden of Eden as a symbol Logan, The Gnostics: Identifying an Early Christian Cult, 2006 & Reconstructing the Ophite Diagram, A. J. wikipedia.org
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Ophism
Ophism rare. (ˈɒfɪz(ə)m) [f. as Ophite n.2 + -ism.] The doctrine or worship of the Ophites: see Ophite n.21865 Chambers's Encycl. s.v. Ophites, Their singular attempt to engraft ‘Ophism’ on Christianity. Oxford English Dictionary
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Ophites
This book contains sections on several other Ophite systems, that of the Peratae, Sethians and of Justinus. He details what has been identified by subsequent writers as an Ophite cosmogony. wikipedia.org
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ophitic
ophitic, a.1 Min. (əʊˈfɪtɪk) [f. ophite n.1 + -ic.] Of the nature of ophite; serpentine; used of the structure of certain rocks in which crystals of feldspar are interposed between plates of augite. By some writers restricted to textures in which augite predominates and the feldspar laths do not in ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Ogdoad (Gnosticism)
The Ophite teaching may be used to illustrate that of Saturninus, his connexion with that school being closer than with any other. Again, beside the higher hebdomad of the seven archons, the Ophite system told of a lower hebdomad. wikipedia.org
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Ophian
Ophian Ch. Hist. (ˈɒfɪən) [ad. Gr. Ὀϕιαν-οί (Clemens Alex.).] = Ophite n.21678 Tenison Idolatry viii. 153 The sect of the Ophians, a kind of Spawn of the Gnostics. 1882–3 Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 880 This class of Gnostics, called by Hippolytus Ophites, by Clement of Alexandria Ophians. Oxford English Dictionary
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La chabola de la Hechicera
Barandiaran explored it partially in 1936, finding two stone percutors ("percutor" is Spanish for the striking hammer of a firearm), a polished axe of ophite wikipedia.org
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Ophitic
Oˈphitic, a.2 Eccl. Hist. [f. Ophite n.2 + -ic.] Of or belonging to the sect of the Ophites.1865 tr. Strauss' New Life Jesus I. ii. xi. 84 Expressions..brought forward from an Ophitic work. 1867 Liddon Bampt. Lect. v. (1872) 217 We find Ophitic Gnostics..appealing to passages in St. John's Gospel. Oxford English Dictionary
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parophite
parophite Min. (ˈpærəfaɪt) [Named 1852, f. para-1 1 + ophite, from its resemblance to ophite or serpentine.] A variety of pinite, allied to agalmatolite, of various colours (greenish, yellowish, reddish, or greyish).1862 Dana Man. Geol. §67. 61 The Parophite of Hunt is a rock of similar composition,... Oxford English Dictionary
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Severian Encratites
Ephiphanius ascribes to the Severians a belief in the well known Gnostic power Ialdaboth (Yaldabaoth) who appears in the Ophite system as the first offspring wikipedia.org
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Verd antique
Verd antique (obsolete French, from Italian, verde antico, "ancient green"), also called verde antique, marmor thessalicum, or Ophite, is a serpentinite It has also been called and marketed as "ophicalcite" or "ophite". wikipedia.org
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Serpentinian
Serpentinian (-ˈɪnɪən) [f. L. Serpentīnus (see serpentine a. and n.) + -ian.] = Ophite2.1758 A. Maclaine tr. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. i. Cent. ii. ii. v. §19 The Ophites, or Serpentinians, a ridiculous sort of heretics, who had for their leader a man called Euphrates. Oxford English Dictionary
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