dithyrambic

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DITHYRAMBIC, noun 1. A song in honor of Bacchus, in which the wildness of intoxication is imitated. 2. Any poem written in wild enthusiastic strains. DITHYRAMBIC, adjective Wild; enthusiastic.
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