OPHITE

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Of or pertaining to a serpent. [Obs.]

2.
n.

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.

3.
n.

A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.


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