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
Jungmann's statue looks down thoughtfully upon this somewhat corybantic form of religious expression when on a Sunday afternoon the Salvation Army band is in full blast.
From From a Terrace in Prague by Baker, Lieut.-Col. B. Granville
Now the tune grows frantic, Now the torches flare— Wild and corybantic Echoes fill the air.
From Challenge by Untermeyer, Louis
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
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