Ophite
See also: ophite
English
Etymology
Latin Ophitae, plural.
Noun
Ophite (plural Ophites)
- (historical) A member of a Gnostic snake-worshipping sect of the second century.
Synonyms
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Ophite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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