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Terms vs Ophite - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and ophite

is that terms is while ophite is (historical) a member of a gnostic snake-worshipping sect of the second century.

terms

English

Noun

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    ophite

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ophites, from (etyl) as Etymology 2, below. Compare (ophites).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) Any of various rocks having snake-like markings, such as a mottled greenish porphyry.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) Serpent-like; ophidian.
  • * 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 243:
    • The idols represented the eons, divine emanations, and their origin was probably ophite – about which we know a thing or two at first hand.
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