The Collaborative International Dictionary
mithraic \mithraic\ mithraistic \mithraistic\adj. Of or pertaining to Mithraism.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to Mithraism or its god [syn: mithraistic]
Usage examples of "mithraic".
Initiate of Mithraic Mysteries crowned, purified by fire and water, 425-u.
We learn this from Celsus, in Origen, who says that the symbolic image of this passage among the stars, used in the Mithraic Mysteries, was a ladder reaching from earth to Heaven, divided into seven steps or stages, to each of which was a gate, and at the summit an eighth one, that of the fixed stars.
In the Mithraic ceremonies, the candidate went through seven stages of initiation, passing through many fearful trials and of these the high ladder with seven rounds or steps was the symbol.
Ineffable Name of God given to the initiate into the Mithraic Mysteries, 425-u.
Initiate of Mithraic Mysteries received on point of sword at left breast, 424-l.
Ladder of the Mithraic Initiations, with its seven steps, a symbol, 851-l.
Sun, Planets and Zodiac represented in the Mithraic cave of initiation, 424-l.
Fear touched the lean countenance and Harpagus drew the sign of the cross, which was a Mithraic sun-symbol.
The winter solstice feasts of the Roman Mithraic mysteries and the allied cult of Sol Invictus influenced the choice of a date for Christmas.
One day in the midst of the drinking, this Meles, who was a high official in the Mithraic cult but who took somewhat lightly his priestly duties, proposed to Antinous that he share in the blood baptism.
I still recall the day that your dear mother approached me about affiliating the United Mithraic Order with E.
Christian converts abandoned their former deities-pagan gods, Roman gods, Greek, sun, Mithraic, whatever-they asked the church what their new Christian God looked like.
Marvell, bald, top hat pushed back, bawling uncouth comments to his assistants: Marvell in the green-gold robes of a Mithraic priest: Marvell swanning through an asteroid belt with the graceful wings of the Solar Cultists on his shoulders.
Celtic wisdom, Mithraic rituals introduced by the Romans, and other strands of magical tradition had been reinvigorated by an influx of cabalism and esoteric Sufi beliefs brought from the Holy Land by returning crusaders.
And if we were still Mithraists merely because Mithraic head-dresses and other Persian apparatuses might be expected to be all the rage in the days of Domitian, it would almost seem by this time that we must be a little dowdy.