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Definition of Corybant
1. n. One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.
Definition of Corybant
1. Proper noun. (alternative spelling of Korybant) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corybant
1. a reveler [n -BANTS or -BANTES] - See also: reveler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corybant
Literary usage of Corybant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Lexicon Abridged from Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon by Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, James Morris Whiton (1891)
"... to celebrate the rites of the corybantes : to start up like a corybant. ...
a corybant priest of ..."
2. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1905)
"Aba(s) DET. IDS.-^ DET. ID. DKT. ID. DET. ID., " corybant of the god Se ...
8 What remains of the inscription reads : "the corybant . . ian, Amma-khal-», ..."
3. Proceedings by Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England), Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England). (1905)
"Aba(s) DET. iDS.-e DET. ID. DKT. ID. DET. ID., " corybant of the god S£ (Sawa)
and the god Attys and dirk-bearer of the goddess ..."
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