Definition of Corybantic

1. a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance.

Definition of Corybantic

1. Adjective. frenetic, ecstatic and orgiastic ¹

2. Adjective. of or pertaining to a Corybant ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Corybantic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Corybantic

corvettos
corvid
corvids
corvina
corvinas
corvine
corvine bird
corvorant
corvorants
corvuses
corvusite
cory
corybant
corybantes
corybantiasm
corybantic (current term)
corybants
corydaline
corydalines
corydalis
corydalises
corydoras
corylophyline
coryluses
corymb
corymbed
corymbiferous
corymbiform
corymbose
corymbose syphilid

Literary usage of Corybantic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Heretics by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1905)
"Professor Huxley, in one of his clever phrases, called the Salvation Army "corybantic Christianity." Huxley was the last and noblest of those Stoics who ..."

2. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1918)
"But the ecstatic manifestations of the corybantic or Dionysiac devotee or the ... To Huxley the Salvation Army appeared to be a kind of ' corybantic ..."

3. The Theatre of the Greeks: A Series of Papers Relating to the History and edited by John William Donaldson (1849)
"Originally, no doubt, it was nothing more than a Comus, and one too of the wildest and most corybantic character. A crowd of worshippers, ..."

4. Orpheus by George Robert Stow Mead (1896)
"13), speaking of the order to which the corybantic powers , belonged, ... of the collocation on a throne, which is performed in the corybantic mysteries. ..."

5. The Theosophical Review by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Mabel Collins, Annie Wood Besant, George Robert Stow Mead (1895)
"13), speaking of the order to which the corybantic powers belonged, writes : " Plato, being persuaded by the mysteries, and by what is performed in them, ..."

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