dithyrambic
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5ADJ.
luminous, over
VERB + DITHYRAMBIC
detached, grows
DITHYRAMBIC + NOUN
owners
PREP.
from
ADV.
fairly
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adj
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.
Bradly was out of bed, blundering across the floor to kneel by her and pat reassurance on her satin-smooth shoulders. She gripped him with both arms, holding him tight against the convulsive shudder that rejected terror in the security of his arms. Confounded by a dithyrambic conflict of fear and exultation, Bradly could only snatch at one coherent thought, "Damme, after the old bitch accusin' me..."
noun
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.
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4Signor Papini, the leader of italian pragmatism, grows fairly dithyrambic over the view that it opens, of man's divinely-creative functions.
WiktionaryBradly was out of bed, blundering across the floor to kneel by her and pat reassurance on her satin-smooth shoulders. She gripped him with both arms, holding him tight against the convulsive shudder t
Wiktionary... thighs appear to be continuously alighting and pausing in mid-air, detached from their dithyrambic owners, like luminous birds on the wing.
Wiktionary1775, 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 asce
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