1. ophite - Noun
2. ophite - Adjective
Of or pertaining to a serpent.
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 mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAfter seeing Margaret Murray 's book The God of the Witches the leader of Ophite Cultus Satanas, Herbert Arthur Sloane, said he realized that the horned god was Satan (Sathanas). Source: Internet