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单词 dithyramb
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dithyramb

/ˈdɪθɪram(b) /
noun
1A wild choral hymn of ancient Greece, especially one dedicated to Dionysus.His Bacco in Toscana, published in 1685, is subtitled ditirambo, the Greek dithyramb being a choral lyric in praise of Dionysus....
  • Plato observes that the types were once distinct: a hymn would not be confused with a dirge, dithyramb, or paean.
  • So theologian Harvey Cox, in his dithyramb on the resurrection of Dionysus, applauded us for ushering in a new age.
1.1A passionate or inflated speech, poem, or other writing.Epic, and tragic poetry, and also comedy and dithyramb and most flute and harp-music, are all by and large imitations....
  • He suddenly bursts into a dithyramb on what it is to be such a thing as a Canadian poet.
  • Ask him about the weather and he delivers a an eccentric little dithyramb on whether or not karate can be viewed with the third eye.

Derivatives

dithyrambic

/dɪθɪˈrambɪk / adjective ...
  • The dithyrambic chorus is a chorus of the transformed.
  • From time to time he'd been forced to wax dithyrambic even about the pretend engineers.
  • Even Shelton had waxed philosophical and dithyrambic at his passing.

Origin

Early 17th century: via Latin from Greek dithurambos, of unknown ultimate origin.

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