Corybantic

But, since The General mingled all this with a cult -- a distinct theological teaching, a theory of the Divine government and destiny of mankind which was in external form, as Huxley styled it, 'Corybantic' -- the question does and must arise whether religion of the Salvationist school does good or harm to the human natures which it addresses.

The Authoritative Life of General William Booth 1881

Our having given up the religious uses of fasting I often think is a loss to young men; and it might, therefore, be as well if we were to imitate our "Corybantic" brethren, the Salvationists, and institute a week of self-denial, leaving the children to work out an economical dietary, with due care on our part that it should be fairly nutritious, and allowing them to give what they have saved from the ordinary household expenses to any cause in which they may be interested.

The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis Ellice Hopkins

They wanted to cultivate the enthusiastic states of the soul and to re-experience the Corybantic possession deemed a pathology by Plato.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

They wanted to cultivate the enthusiastic states of the soul and to re-experience the Corybantic possession deemed a pathology by Plato.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

Corybantic self-promotion from his eponymous Vancouver-based consulting firm landed him on Nightline with Ted Koppel and got him quoted in news media all over the world.

All Hyped Up and No Place to Go-What's a Y2K Alarmist to Do? 1999

Hence came our Lady, haunter of Cybele, the Corybantic cymbals and the grove of Ida; hence the rites of inviolate secrecy, and the lions yoked under the chariot of their mistress.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

Corybantic dances one can also modulate and quell, by changing the metre from the trochaic and the measure from the Phrygian.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

That the Bacchic and Corybantic frenzies were, in all respects, identical with the middle age dancing manias, and with the possession of those who still exhibit the influences of _Waren_ in Hindoostan, can hardly be doubted.

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

When I listen to him my heart beats with a more than Corybantic excitement; he has only to speak and my tears flow.

The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

Now he is the prophet of Jehovah, now the Corybantic pagan priest, now the interpreter of the soul of machines.

Among Famous Books John Kelman 1896