Cake cats can cause corybantic coeliac convulsions!. From Wordnik.com. [Stop the Insanity!!] Reference
The word of the day is “corybantic,” defined by AWAD as “wild; frenzied; uncontrolled.”. From Wordnik.com. [Inspiration on a Tuesday] Reference
The doctor looked from the corybantic captain to his primly smirking daughter, adjusted his spectacles, and sighed. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
Akadie spoke in his most didactic voice: The name derives from old Glottisch: Fan is a corybantic celebration of glory. From Wordnik.com. [Trullion: Alastor 2262]
I could have used this when I lived in Los Angeles, you know, back in my corybantic days, when I would party corybantically all weekend. From Wordnik.com. [Inspiration on a Tuesday] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
I knew there was nothing in them and no bottom to the whole story; and the drums and shouts and cries from Tanugamanono and the town keeping up an all night corybantic chorus in the moonlight — the moon rose late — and the search-light of the war-ship in the harbour making a jewel of brightness as it lit up the bay of. From Wordnik.com. [Vailima Letters] Reference
Then suddenly, heralded by clattering sounds and a gride of wheels, Dangle had flared and thundered across the tranquillity of the summer evening; Dangle, swaying and gesticulating behind a corybantic black horse, had hailed Jessie by her name, had backed towards the hedge for no ostensible reason, and vanished to the accomplishment of the Fate that had been written down for him from the very beginning of things. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference
No Bacchic revels on Mount Parnassus were ever more corybantic. From Wordnik.com. [All Around the Moon] Reference
Professor Huxley, in one of his clever phrases, called the Salvation Army "corybantic Christianity.". From Wordnik.com. [Heretics] Reference
Walden is four years (1964 - 68) seen through the corybantic 16mm Bolex of Anthology Film Archives tomorrow through Wednesday. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
General Booth's scheme for elevating the masses by cymbals and dogma was "corybantic Christianity"; to explain what he thought was the. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work] Reference
If he had understood Christianity he would have known that there never has been, and never can be, any Christianity that is not corybantic. From Wordnik.com. [Heretics] Reference
SEMICUACUA, a somewhat corybantic dance which left much to the invention of the performers, and very little to the imagination of the spectator. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Stories of Bret Harte] Reference
London Polytechnic, and, at the very moment when its corybantic nature most declared itself, constrained to an order and a beauty tremendous and austere. From Wordnik.com. [The Combined Maze] Reference
The practical influence of Nietzsche, who -- with his corybantic whirl of criticism on all things in heaven above and on the earth beneath, a criticism not always coherent with itself -- can hardly be termed a. From Wordnik.com. [German Culture Past and Present] Reference
It was not unnatural that Welhaven should look upon the corybantic music of Wergeland as the source and origin of an evil of which it was really the symptom; he gathered his powers together to crush it, and he published a thunderbolt of sonnets. From Wordnik.com. [Henrik Ibsen] Reference
One or two, however, were disappointed that he had as yet given no indication of that powerful exhortatory emotion for which he was famed, and which had been said to excite certain corresponding corybantic symptoms among his sensitive female worshipers. From Wordnik.com. [A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories] Reference
And stranger than all, a corybantic enthusiasm seized upon the emotionally religious, and those priests and priestesses of Cybele who were famous for their frenzy and passion in camp-meeting devotions seemed to find an equal expression that night in the waltz. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Redwoods] Reference
Church's "mysteries" for certain corybantic displays and thaumaturgical exhibitions he had witnessed at the Dissenters 'camp meeting, "that I must leave all that to you, and I must caution you to be careful what you do lest you also shake her faith in the alphabet and the multiplication table.". From Wordnik.com. [Trent's Trust, and Other Stories] Reference
Mehitabel the corybantic cat came on the scene to provide lyric spasms; archy became less the clown and more the skeptical commentator, I am not going to maxeastman the matter by avoirdupois analysis, nor insist that these two freakish palefaces provided just the mechanism Mr. Marquis's genius required. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Morley writes about Don Marquis] Reference
They saw forty or fifty couples whirling slowly round and round to the irresistible measure; some were stiff and awkward, palpably shy; some with invincible propriety whirled upright and rigid, like toys wound up to whirl; some were abandoned to the measure with madness, with passion, with a corybantic joy. From Wordnik.com. [The Combined Maze] Reference
General Booth's scheme for elevating the masses by cymbals and dogma was “corybantic Christianity”; to explain what he thought was the Catholic attitude to the doctrine of evolution, he said it would have been called damnabilis by Father Suarez, and that he would have meant “not that it was to be damned, but that it was an active principle capable of damning.”. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work]
But that’s okay, because rather than figuring out which songs I will be rocking out to in the office (no rockin’ for me today), I can update you on my corybantic weekend!. From Wordnik.com. [Art, Fetish, Birthdays, and Porn] Reference
And while Wheen’s tour through the Seventies is always tinged with a touch of humor, some readers may want a dictionary handy as they encounter phrases like “corybantic orgy.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen » Print] Reference
8: 51 a.m. The word of the day is “corybantic,” defined by AWAD as “wild; frenzied; uncontrolled.”. From Wordnik.com. [Inspiration on a Tuesday] Reference
No corybantic clangor clamoured through. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 15, 1892] Reference
Still must thou live and corybantic die. From Wordnik.com. [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference
By corybantic. From Wordnik.com. [Zimbabwe Telegraph and ZimDaily Forums] Reference
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