dithyrambic

Adjective

 * Of, pertaining to, or resembling a dithyramb; especially, passionate, intoxicated with enthusiasm.
 * 1) * 2000, Ian C. Johnston, The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche, page 104:
 * The dithyrambic chorus is a chorus of transformed people, for whom their social past, their civic position, is entirely forgotten.
 * 1) * 2000, Ian C. Johnston, The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche, page 104:
 * The dithyrambic chorus is a chorus of transformed people, for whom their social past, their civic position, is entirely forgotten.
 * The dithyrambic chorus is a chorus of transformed people, for whom their social past, their civic position, is entirely forgotten.

Noun

 * 1) A dithyramb.
 * 2) * 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.