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from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the corybants or their rites; corybantian.
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Examples
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I do not know, said Pantagruel, but that some swarms of bees hereabouts may be taking a ramble in the air, and so the neighbourhood make this dingle-dangle with pans, kettles, and basins, the corybantine cymbals of Cybele, grandmother of the gods, to call them back.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I do not know, said Pantagruel, but that some swarms of bees hereabouts may be taking a ramble in the air, and so the neighbourhood make this dingle-dangle with pans, kettles, and basins, the corybantine cymbals of Cybele, grandmother of the gods, to call them back.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I do not know, said Pantagruel, but that some swarms of bees hereabouts may be taking a ramble in the air, and so the neighbourhood make this dingle-dangle with pans, kettles, and basins, the corybantine cymbals of
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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