Corybant
Americannoun
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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 Benson, Arthur Christopher
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 Hurst, Fannie
Treat me as a Corybant, a fanatic: and do you go forward on this road of yours.
From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Pater, Walter
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
In art the Corybantes appear, usually not more than two or three in number, fully armed and executing their orgiastic 212 dance in the presence of the Great Mother, her lions and Attis.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
The priests of Cybele, called Corybantes, also Galli, were not admitted to their sacred functions without previous mutilation.
From The System of Nature, Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
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 Willis, N. Parker
Doth she of the Mountains work her ban, Or the dread Corybantes bind thee?
From Hippolytus/The Bacchae by Euripides
For heaven-possessed, O lady, or whether by Pan, or by Hecate, or by the venerable Corybantes, or by the mother who haunts the mountains, thou art raving.
From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides
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 Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)
Lys. Now in the market you see them like Corybants, jangling about with their armour of mail.
From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive
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 O'Sullivan, Vincent
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