corybantic

[kawr-uh-ban-tik, kor-]

adjective

1. frenzied; agitated; unrestrained.

2. (initial capital letter),  Also Corybantian Corybantine of or relating to a Corybant.

Word History and Origins

Origin of corybantic¹

First recorded in 1635–45; Corybant + -ic

Example Sentences

Wheeldon’s “Corybantic Games,” set to Leonard Bernstein’s “Serenade After Plato: Symposium,” with Greek-inspired costumes by Erdem Moralioglu, is a reminder of this choreographer’s craft, wit and range.

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The auditorium is dark, the stage is lit and the renowned choreographer Christopher Wheeldon is in the circle, watching with a critical eye as the troupe performs a scene from “Corybantic Games,” a new ballet dedicated to the late American composer Leonard Bernstein.

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Britons today do not, on the whole, spend their weekends marching behind banners, just as they tend not to join trade unions, go to church or—notwithstanding his popularity among a corybantic minority—support political movements.

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Snoo Wilson kept bees in his garden in Clapham and knew them all by name Snoo Wilson's collected plays constitute a glorious Corybantic frieze covering vast tracts of human experience, filtered through an imagination that took in anthropology, history, physics, alchemy, mathematics, painting and the occult.

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He laid the corybantic young lady in question upon the table to substantiate his statement.

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Related Words

• agitated 
• angry 
• delirious 
• distraught 
• frenetic 
• frenzied 
• furious 
• hectic 
• mad 
• overwrought 
• weird