Crossword clues for choric
choric
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Choric \Cho"ric\, a. [L. choricus, Gr. ?.] Of or pertaining to a chorus.
I remember a choric ode in the Hecuba.
--Coleridge.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1749, from Latin choricus, from Greek khorikos, from khoros (see chorus).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Including or involving a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%20chorus 2 (context poetry English) Intended to be sung by a choir or chorus (e.g. a hymn)
WordNet
adj. relating to or written for or in the style of a Greek chorus; "a choric Greek tragedy"
Usage examples of "choric".
And, minutes later, with urgent speed, and accompanied by choric howls of electrified distress, Xan Meo went to hospital.
The retinue of Croton swelled from hour to hour until it formed a long double line that wound its way through the camp, at first to the sound of oboes and kettledrums only, but then a sort of choric chanting was developed, certain phrases were shouted loudly and repeatedly.
And there were groups where silvery springs The ethereal forest showed begirt By companies in choric rings, Whom but to see made ear alert.
And the dawn was glimmering against the eastern stars, as they took the way to the castle, making the ghostly fir-woods ring with shout and choric song.
And in the monologue malls and choric alleys of London West the screamers sing and the singers scream.
And choric dances to guitar and flute, Be these around me when my lips are mute, Mine eyes are sealed from sight.
Take it for not worse than accompanying choric flourishes, in accord with Mr.
Such wooing as the ear receives From zephyr caught in choric leaves Of aspens when their chattering net Is flushed to white with shivers wet.
Richard moved through the loose talk of the loose clump of mums and heard their choric song: a little girl, this time.
Music and flowers and light, And choric dances to guitar and flute, Be these around me when my lips are mute, Mine eyes are sealed from sight.
If Dolliver, the current favorite, were to be nominated on Wednesday, there would be no chorus in the Roosevelt suite, and the now exuberant windmill in front of the window would no longer revolve once the warm winds of choric frenzy had ceased.