Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A priest of the Phrygian goddess Cybele whose rites were celebrated with music and ecstatic dances.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the mysterious spirits or secondary Asian divinities, akin to the Dactyli and the Telchines; or, without clear distinction from the former, a priest of the goddess Cybele, who conducted her mysteries with wild music and dancing; hence, a frantic devotee; a wild, reckless reveler. See
Cybele . Sometimes written korybant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Alternative spelling of
Korybant .
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Examples
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Treat me as a Corybant, a fanatic: and do you go forward on this road of yours.
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 Walter Pater 1866
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Resist it, for you must be as mad as a Corybant if you fall asleep. [
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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That's not sane, you know ” it's the intoxication of the Corybant!
Father Payne Benson, Arthur C. 1915
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