Dictionary![]() ![]() Or•phicPronunciation: (ôr'fik), [key] —adj. 1. of or pertaining to Orpheus. 2. resembling the music attributed to Orpheus; entrancing. 3. pertaining to a religious or philosophical school maintaining a form of the cult of Dionysus, or Bacchus, ascribed to Orpheus as founder: Orphic mysteries. 4. (often l.c.) mystic; oracular. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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