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Meaning Of Ophite
a.
Of or pertaining to a serpent.
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.
a.
A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second
century.