dithyrambic

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dithyrambic

adjective more dithyrambic · most dithyrambic

Of, pertaining to, or resembling a dithyramb; especially, passionate, intoxicated with enthusiasm. Signor Papini, the leader of italian pragmatism, grows fairly dithyrambic over the view that it opens, of man's divinely-creative functions.

noun dithyrambics

A dithyramb. 1775, Anonymous, review of the West translation of Pindar's Olympic Odes, in The Critical Review, volume 40, page 451, As we have no remains of the dithyrambics of the ancients, we cannot exactly ascertain the measure.

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@misc{dithyrambic_2026,
  title = {dithyrambic},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dithyrambic},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}