torphanotropny

[Gr. orphanos desti tute, orphan, and trop he =nourishment, rearing; trephoto nourish, to rear.] 1. The act of supporting or rearing orphans. 2. A home or asylum for orphans; an orphanage, or-phan-ry, s . [Eng. orphan ; -ry.] A home for orphans; an orphanage. or-phär-I-on, s. [ORPHEUS.] Music: A kind of musical instrument akin to the. guitar and lute. or-phe-an, a . [See def.] Of or pertaining to Orpheus, a celebrated mythic bard and musician of ancient Greece; hence, melodious. "By magic summons of the Orphean lyre." Cowper : Task , iii. 587. orphean-warbler, s . Ornith.: Curruca orphea , a song-bird; family Sylvidæ. ( Yarrell . ) *or-phe-line, subst . [ Fr.orphelin .] An orphan. ( Chaucer .) brother Linus he was regarded as having introduced the arts of civilized life among wild and untutored hordes, and by the power of song to have charmed savage beasts, and to have awakened even inanimate nature into life and rapture. 2. Ornith .: Swains on's name for the genus Mimus (q.v.). Or-phic, a . [ORPHEUS.] Of or pertaining to Orpheus; Orphean; spec if., belonging to or connected with Orphism (q. v.). "Greek literature was always hostile to the Orphic religion." Encyc. Brit . (ed. 9th), xviii. 57. Or-phişm, s. [Eng., ., Orpheus); -ism.] Compar. Relig.: The doctrines of a Greek school or sect, said to have been founded by the mythic Orpheus. It first comes into notice in the sixth century, B. C. It contained two elements: (1) The religion of Bacchus, and (2) speculation on the nature and relations of the gods. The literature formed a corpus, Ta Orphika ="The Orphic a," now lost, except fragments of uncertain age. [OмоPHAGIC-RITES.] "The close analogy between Pythagoreanism and Or phism has been recognized from Hero dot us (ii. 81) to the latest modern writers. Both inculcated a peculiar kind of ascetic life; both had a mystical speculative theory of religion, with purificatory rites, abstinence from beans, .; but Orphism was more especially religious." -Encyc. Brit . (ed. 9th), xviii. 51. or-phrey, s. [ORFRAYS.] A band or bands of gold and silver embroidery affixed to ecclesiastical vestments.