The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dithyrambic \Dith`y*ram"bic\,
[L. dithyrambicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. dithyrambique.] Pertaining to, or resembling, a dithyramb; wild and boisterous. ``Dithyrambic sallies.''
--Longfellow. -- n. A dithyrambic poem; a dithyram
Wiktionary
Of, pertaining to, or resembling a dithyramb; ''especially,'' passionate, intoxicated with enthusiasm. n. A dithyram
WordNet
adj. of or in the manner of a dithyramb
Usage examples of "dithyrambic".
Petrified in art, they accept to the very letter the symbolism of the academical dithyrambic, which places an aureola about the heads of poets, and, persuaded that they are gleaming in their obscurity, wait for others to come and seek them out.
The rhythm of alternating dawn and sunset, the strophe and antistrophe still perceptible through all the sudden shifts of our dithyrambic seasons and echoed in corresponding floral harmonies, made melody in the soul of Abel, the plain serving-man.
Did you not hear, my beloved, how I cried to you with sighs and tears, how in glowing dithyrambics I poured forth to you my longing, my love, my rapture?