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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
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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