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
The writhings and stomping of Marat/Sade's insane have inspired a corybantic kind of choreography in which the dancers become as hopelessly intertwined as the Laoco�n family.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Long, Frank Belknap
But the machinery—the hideously discordant human orchestra, the corybantic dancing!
From Visionaries by Huneker, James
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