Corybant
noun
any of the spirits or secondary divinities attending Cybele with wild music and dancing.
Corybantian
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a word derived from
Corybant.
Example Sentences
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This is proved by the Corybantian cure of motion, and by the practice of nurses who rock children in their arms, lapping them at the same time in sweet strains.
From Laws by Benjamin Jowett
Probably diverging from dances partly religious, partly warlike, as the Corybantian, came the war dances proper, of which there were various kinds; and from these resulted secular dances.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
And as the Corybantian dances are not quite 'rational,' so the lyric poets are, so to speak, not quite 'all there.'
From Poetry by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Hence, to your Dindymus, and roam her heights With Corybantian eunuchs!
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
Thence Corybantian cymbals clashed and brayed In praise of Cybele.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
