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
Small boys, who, attracted by his corybantic entrance, had come to the doors of their cubicles to see what the matter was, regarded him furtively with looks of mingled fear and amusement.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian
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 Harte, Bret
Now the tune grows frantic, Now the torches flare— Wild and corybantic Echoes fill the air.
From Challenge by Untermeyer, Louis
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