ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Dithyrambic

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Dithyrambic is an adjective meaning Of, pertaining to, or resembling a dithyramb; especially, passionate, intoxicated with enthusiasm.

Meaning

Of, pertaining to, or resembling a dithyramb; especially, passionate, intoxicated with enthusiasm.

More Meanings

  1. A dithyramb.

Example Sentences

Nevertheless, if one has time and, still more, the patience to search whole acres of dithyrambic prose, he shall have his reward.
The dithyrambic chorus is a chorus of transformed people, for whom their social past, their civic position, is entirely forgotten.
Signor Papini, the leader of italian pragmatism, grows fairly dithyrambic over the view that it opens, of man's divinely-creative functions.
... thighs appear to be continuously alighting and pausing in mid-air, detached from their dithyrambic owners, like luminous birds on the wing.

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Related dictionary entries include dactylar, dionysiac, dionysian, diatribical, diatribal, choric.

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