Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to a chorus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a chorus; specifically, fitted for the use of the chorus in the ancient Greek drama: as, choric meters, poems, or compositions (that is, the more elaborate as opposed to the simpler meters, etc.). See
chorus , 1 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a chorus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Including or involving a Greek chorus
- adjective poetry Intended to be sung by a
choir orchorus (e.g. ahymn )
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or written for or in the style of a Greek chorus
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The dithyramb (_dithyrambos_ or Bacchic step, [- '' -]) brought a new step to the dance and therefore a new element into poetry, for all dances were choric, that is to say they were sung as well as danced.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884
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All this matters because it lends Chris's endless refrain of "dat ole devil, sea" a choric power.
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The evening really belongs, however, to the unseen Kieve who can make inanimate objects skim through the air, and who finally has Gary Wilmot as a choric tramp locked in a trunk only to reappear seconds later at the back of the stalls.
The Invisible Man – review Michael Billington 2010
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Let me create these choric codas throughout the manuscript that would signal mood changes and serve as epigraphic accents at key points in the manuscript.
2007 March : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation - Part 2 2007
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The songs sung in Dappu Dance are choric and sometimes erotic.
Untouchable Spring .... అంటరాని వసంతం kesav 2009
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Its swift movement, the rapid rise and fall of a rhythmic pattern and its suitability for choric recitation have made it one of our dearest poems.
News at Eleven: [Walt] Whitman's deep influence on Nazrul Islam Rus Bowden 2009
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Its swift movement, the rapid rise and fall of a rhythmic pattern and its suitability for choric recitation have made it one of our dearest poems.
Archive 2009-09-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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The songs sung in Dappu Dance are choric and sometimes erotic.
Archive 2009-04-01 kesav 2009
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Let me create these choric codas throughout the manuscript that would signal mood changes and serve as epigraphic accents at key points in the manuscript.
And What of the Haiku? : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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My observation is that directly as our choric insistence on the restoration of values has swelled, so our own personal embodiment of those values in our daily conduct has sunk.
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