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Corybant|ˈkɒrɪbænt|
Also 4 Coribande, 6 Coribant. Pl. Corybants; now usually in L. form Corybantes |kɒrɪˈbæntiːz|.
[a. F. Corybante, ad. L. Corybant-em (nom. Corybās), a. Gr. κορύβᾱς, -αντα.]
A priest of the Phrygian worship of Cybele, which was performed with noisy and extravagant dances.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. v. 133 Þer is a maner poeple þat hyȝte coribandes þat wenen..whan þe moone is in þe eclips þat it be enchauntid . and þerfore..þei betyn hire basines wiþ þikke strokes. 1570Kirchmeier in Harper's Mag. Dec. (1884) 17/1 Thus woont the Coribants..The crying noise of Jupiter new borne with song to hide. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 41 Those mad Corybants, who dance and glow On Dindymus high tops with frantick fire. 1850J. Leitch tr. Müller's Anc. Art §395. 521 Cybele enthroned, a Corybant dancing. 1883Froude Short Stud. Ser. iv. 277 Christians now howl it out like the Corybantes.
Hence Corybantian |kɒrɪˈbæntɪən|, a. [L. Corybanti-us + -an], of or pertaining to the Corybantes or their worship. Coryˈbantiasm Path. [Gr. κορυβαντιασµός Corybantic frenzy]: see quot. † Coryˈbantiate v. Obs. [see -ate3], to act like a Corybant. Coryˈbantic [Gr. κορυβαντικός], Coryˈbantine a., of, pertaining to, or resembling the Corybantes or their rites.
1864H. Spencer Illustr. Univ. Progr. 25 Dances partly religious, partly warlike, as the Corybantian. 1847Craig, Corybantiasm, in Pathology, a sort of frenzy, in which the patient has fantastic visions. 1882Syd. Soc. Lex., Corybantism. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Corybantiate, to sleep with one's Eyes open, or be troubled with Visions that one cannot sleep. 1775Ash, Corybantiate..to act the part of the Corybants who were wont to make many odd noises and gestures, to act the part of a lunatic. 1642Cudworth Serm. 1 Cor. xv. 57 (1676) 92 True Divine Zeal is no Corybantick Fury, but a calm and regular heat. 1864Cornh. Mag. IX. 165 He was corybantic in his execution of a Scotch ‘reel’. 1890Huxley in Times 1 Dec. 13/2 That form of somewhat corybantic Christianity of which the soldiers of the Salvation Army are the militant missionaries. 1708Motteux Rabelais v. i. (1737) 2 The Corybantin Cymbals of Cybele. |