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/awr-fiz-uhm/US // ˈɔr fɪz əm //UK // (ˈɔːfɪzəm) //
口头禅,语录,词义,口头语
Definitions
n.名词 noun
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- : the religious or philosophical system of the Orphic school.
- : Also called orphic cubism. Fine Arts. a short-lived but influential artistic movement of the early 20th century arising from analytic cubism and the work of Robert Delaunay and having as conspicuous characteristics the use of bold color, the dynamic, prismatic juxtaposition and overlapping of nonobjective geometric forms and planes, and a lightness and lyricism dissociated from its cubist origins.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Epimenides must be reckoned with Melampus and Onomacritus as one of the founders of Orphism.
Orphism took up the beliefs of paganism, and adapted them to its own ends.
Orphism may very possibly represent an ancient Cretan religion in clash or fusion with one from Thrace.
Orphism though of foreign origin became a genuine Greek religion, and was the last.
Orphism and the Mysteries had attempted the same thing in the Grecian world without achieving a lasting success.
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