Corybant
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Corybantes,
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Corybants
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Classical Mythology. any of the spirits or secondary divinities attending Cybele with wild music and dancing.
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an ancient Phrygian priest of Cybele.
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Origin of Corybant
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin Corybant- (stem of Corybās ) < Greek Korybant- (stem of Korýbās )
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That's not sane, you know—it's the intoxication of the Corybant!
From Father Payne by Arthur Christopher Benson
Corybant, kor′i-bant, n. a priest of Cybele, whose rites were accompanied with noisy music and wild dances:—Eng. pl.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Treat me as a Corybant, a fanatic: and do you go forward on this road of yours.
From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Walter Pater
The gold figure of a Cybele in a gold chariot raced with eight reproductions of herself in an octagonal mirror-lined foyer, and a steady stream of Corybantes bought admission tickets at twenty-five cents a Corybant.
From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Fannie Hurst
And where shall a man walk, converse with whom, in what province, city, and not meet with Signior Deliro, or Hercules Furens, Maenads, and Corybantes?
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
The gold figure of a Cybele in a gold chariot raced with eight reproductions of herself in an octagonal mirror-lined foyer, and a steady stream of Corybantes bought admission tickets at twenty-five cents a Corybant.
From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Fannie Hurst
It was more like a train of Corybantes than anything I had seen.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
The Phrygian Corybantes had been forced out of the hill-side like trees by Rhea, the great mother, and hence were called δενδροϕυεῖς.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
No mystic priest of the Corybantes could have worked himself up into a finer phrensy of language.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
These are Corybants who might have flocked in the pagan train of Cybele.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hermes received me, and gave me my place next to a group of Gods whose alien origin left them in a rather doubtful position—Pan, the Corybants, Attis, and Sabazius.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
Lys. Now in the market you see them like Corybants, jangling about with their armour of mail.
From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell
Her statue, carried in a splendid litter, robed with precious stuffs, curled and farded, passed through the streets of the city, with its guard of mummers and Corybants.
From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan
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