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PRONUNCIATION OF CORYBANTISM

ˌkɒrɪˈbæntɪzəm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CORYBANTISM

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Corybantism is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CORYBANTISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of corybantism in the English dictionary

The definition of corybantism in the dictionary is a delirium characterized by livid, frightening hallucinations and causing insomnia.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CORYBANTISM

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CORYBANTISM

cory · Corybant · Corybantian · Corybantic · Corybantine · corydaline · corydalis · Corydon · corylopses · corylopsis · corylus · corymb · corymbed · corymbose · corymbosely · corymbous · corynebacteria · corynebacterial · corynebacterium · coryneform

WORDS THAT END LIKE CORYBANTISM

animal magnetism · astigmatism · automatism · erotism · ferromagnetism · flagellantism · giantism · gigantism · immanentism · indifferentism · intransigentism · magmatism · mutism · nepotism · Protestantism · saintism · scientism · syncretism · tarantism · vigilantism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CORYBANTISM»

Discover the use of corybantism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to corybantism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito: Critical Essays
The only other passage which draws a direct comparison between Corybantism and the effect of an argument is Euthydemus 277d4-e2. Here Socrates compares the effect ofthe opening arguments ofthe two sophists to the effect ofCorybants, ...
Rachana Kamtekar, 2004
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Healing Dream and Ritual (4th Edition)
To my mind, the figure of Methe (Intoxication) represented orgiastic corybantism, and the lyre-playing Eros its cure. Corybantism was a state of religious possession which appeared in the Dionysian thiasos. To the Greeks, however, music had ...
Carl A. Meier, 2009
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Music and Trance: A Theory of the Relations Between Music ...
Speaking of the evolution of Plato's ideas concerning mania, Jeanne Croissant ( 1932, 20) observes that there existed for him a certain "hierarchy" in the "mystic facts," and that when Corybantism and Bacchism were involved, he was "nearer ...
Gilbert Rouget, 1985
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Healing Dream and Ritual: Ancient Incubation and Modern ...
To my mind, the figure of Methe (Intoxication) represented orgiastic corybantism, and the lyre-playing Eros its cure. Corybantism was a state of religious possession which appeared in the Dionysian thiasos. To the Greeks, however, music had ...
C. A. Meier, 2003
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Soteriology and Mystic Aspects in the Cult of Cybele and ...
I do not share the latter's interpretation when he identifies the Corybamic mania with pathological madness and attributes to Corybantism an exclusively cathartic function where mental illness is concerned. Admittedly the cathartic aspect is ...
Giulia Sfameni Gasparro, 1985
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Practice of medicine: containing the Homeopathic treatment ...
Pulse wanting, and analogy with the cadaveric state, except the conservation of the heat. Restoration of consciousness, with an impossibility to talk for several hours. Doses: Twelfth to 30th dilution. Treatment of Corybantism. — Corybantism, or ...
Pierre Jousset, John Arschagouni, 1901
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Chronicles of the World Tree
Eventually the strangely awesome corybantism cametoa halt. The eyes of the dancers became quiet, still.Theyheld the gazeof their spellbound audience, andthere wasnoone,no oneinthat assembly who didnot understand thatthoseeyes saw ...
Patricia Anne Dye, 2012
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Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Secret Cults
Sokolowski, F., 1962: Lois sacrées des Citès grecques, Supplément. De Boccard, Paris. Sokolowski, F., 1969: Lois sacrées des Citès grecques. De Boccard, Paris. Ustinova, Y., 1992–1998: “Corybantism: The nature and role of an ecstatic cult ...
Michael B. Cosmopoulos, 2005
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Nietzsche on Tragedy
97 On Corybantism see I. M. Linforth, Univ. of Calif. Publ. in Class. Phil. 13, 1946, 121ff. and Dodds G/, 77ff. The ' Corybantes ' were ministers of the Phrygian mother goddess, whose rites they performed with wild music and dancing.
M. S. Silk, 1983
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Classical Disquisitions and Curiosities Critical and Historical
From their eternal drumming also, a disease of the ears accompanied with continual ringing was called corybantism. G r, MISCELLANEOUS PASSAGES FROM HOMER. xev rgirctTui "EoTi Se pot p,a.\a. FROM MODERN AUTHORS. 449.
Benjamin Heath Malkin, 1825
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