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
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
Professor Huxley, in one of his clever phrases, called the Salvation Army "corybantic Christianity."
From Heretics by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
I have a vivid recollection of him in the mysteries of the SEMICUACUA, a somewhat corybantic dance which left much to the invention of the performers, and very little to the imagination of the spectator.
From Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Bret Harte
