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dithyrambic, a. and n.|dɪθɪˈræmbɪk|
[ad. L. dīthyrambic-us, a. Gr. διθυραµβικός, f. διθύραµβος: see prec. In F. dithyrambique.]
A. adj. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a dithyramb; composing dithyrambs.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1358 To Bacchus they do chant..certeine Dithyrambicke ditties and tunes. 1656Cowley Pindar. Odes, Praise Pindar ii, So Pindar does new Words and Figures roul Down his impetuous Dithyrambique Tide. 1853Grote Greece ii. lxxxiii. XI. 36 The dithyrambic poet Philoxenus. 1854Longfellow Epimetheus ii, With dithyrambic dances.
b. transf. Resembling a dithyramb in irregularity of style; wild, vehement, boisterous.
c1611Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iii. Schisme 547 Ba'l's bawling Priests..howling chaunt these Dithyrambik charms. 1689–90Temple Ess. Poetry Wks. 1731 I. 245 The common Vein of the Gothick Runes was what is termed Dithirambick. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. ix. 329 Dithyrambic liberty of Style. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) II. xx. 208 A flow of lofty dithyrambic eloquence.
B. n.
a. A dithyrambic verse; a dithyramb.
b. Something resembling a dithyramb in style.
c. A writer of a dithyramb.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. xiv. 367 Philoxenus..went off from the Dorik Dytherambicks unto the Phrygian Harmony. 1674Blount Glossogr. (ed. 4), The Poets, who composed such Hymns, were called Dithyrambicks. 1828Carlyle Goethe's Helena Misc. Ess. 1872 I. 163 He concludes with another rapid dithyrambic describing the Peninsula of Greece. 1850Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. (ed. 2) 126 [Plato] had been a writer of dithyrambics. |