corybantic
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Grocer's apostrophes are scribbled out, misspellings fixed, and good lord the corybantic orgy of less/fewer corrections.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2013
From his life with his mother he would seem to have gotten not only an abiding detestation for the beautiful per se, the noble emotion nobly expressed, but also his almost corybantic intelligence.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Australian larrikin and his "donah" dance at "down the harbor" picnics with a fixed solemnity of face, as if performing some weird corybantic rite.
From England by Sir Frank Fox
Others charged short distances at headlong speed, checked short, whirled madly, darted and swooped again with incredible agility, in a sort of corybantic frenzy.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance
In the Albert Hall, where he made his début amid scenes of corybantic enthusiasm last week, the diminutive virtuoso was hardly visible to the naked eye.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 by Various
