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Definitions of dithyramb in English

Noun(1) a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing(2) (ancient Greece, usually in honor of Dionysus

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(1) Plato observes that the types were once distinct: a hymn would not be confused with a dirge, dithyramb , or paean.(2) So theologian Harvey Cox, in his dithyramb on the resurrection of Dionysus, applauded us for ushering in a new age.(3) His Bacco in Toscana, published in 1685, is subtitled ditirambo, the Greek dithyramb being a choral lyric in praise of Dionysus.(4) Ask him about the weather and he delivers a an eccentric little dithyramb on whether or not karate can be viewed with the third eye.(5) Epic, and tragic poetry, and also comedy and dithyramb and most flute and harp-music, are all by and large imitations.(6) He suddenly bursts into a dithyramb on what it is to be such a thing as a Canadian poet.(7) Even Shelton had waxed philosophical and dithyrambic at his passing.(8) The dithyrambic chorus is a chorus of the transformed.(9) Such is the case with Herrick's ‘Fare-well to Sack,’ a dithyrambic ode.(10) From time to time he'd been forced to wax dithyrambic even about the pretend engineers.

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