corybantic
Americanadjective
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frenzied; agitated; unrestrained.
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(initial capital letter) Also Corybantian Corybantine of or relating to a Corybant.
Etymology
Origin of corybantic
Example Sentences
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Grocer's apostrophes are scribbled out, misspellings fixed, and good lord the corybantic orgy of less/fewer corrections.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2013
From his life with his mother he would seem to have gotten not only an abiding detestation for the beautiful per se, the noble emotion nobly expressed, but also his almost corybantic intelligence.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was obviously no enthroned authority here, no bejeweled king to pacify when emotions ran wild, but complete freedom to embrace joy with corybantic abandonment.
From The Man from Time by Frank Belknap Long
I have a vivid recollection of him in the mysteries of the SEMICUACUA, a somewhat corybantic dance which left much to the invention of the performers, and very little to the imagination of the spectator.
From Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Bret Harte
Still must thou live and corybantic die, A traceless meteor in a clouding sky; Thy name a cheat; thyself, a world-wide lie?
From Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) by Julia Griffiths
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