ophite
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Of or pertaining to a serpent. [Obs.]
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.
A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.
Definition: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University.
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