Dithyrambic

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A dithyramb.

    "1775, Anonymous, review of the West translation of Pindar's Olympic Odes, in The Critical Review, volume 40, page 451, As we have no remains of the dithyrambics of the ancients, we cannot exactly ascertain the measure."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling a dithyramb; especially, passionate, intoxicated with enthusiasm.

    "Signor Papini, the leader of italian pragmatism, grows fairly dithyrambic over the view that it opens, of man's divinely-creative functions."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or in the manner of a dithyramb wordnet

Synonyms

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bucolicdidacticdramaticelegiacheroichomeric

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"Signor Papini, the leader of italian pragmatism, grows fairly dithyrambic over the view that it opens, of man's divinely-creative functions."

Etymology

From dithyramb + -ic.

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