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[], (Noun)
Definitions:
- Any of various eruptive or metamorphic rocks which have spots or markings like a snake and are usually green; serpentine.
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late 16th century; earliest use found in Robert Dallington (b. 1561), author and courtier. From classical Latin ophītēs ophites
[], (Noun)
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- A member of an early Gnostic sect which worshipped the serpent.
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early 17th century; earliest use found in Edward Topsell (d. 1625), Church of England clergyman and author. From post-classical Latin Ophitae (late 2nd or early 3rd century in Tertullian) from Hellenistic Greek Ὀϕῖται, plural of Ὀϕίτης from ancient Greek ὄϕις serpent + -ίτης
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