dithyrambic

== English == === Etymology === From dithyramb + -ic. === Adjective === dithyrambic (comparative more dithyrambic, superlative most dithyrambic) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a dithyramb; especially, passionate, intoxicated with enthusiasm. 2000, Ian C. Johnston, The Birth of Tragedy [3] 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. ==== Derived terms ==== === Noun === dithyrambic (plural dithyrambics) A dithyramb. 1775, Anonymous, review of the West translation of Pindar's Olympic Odes, in The Critical Review, volume 40, [4] page 451, As we have no remains of the dithyrambics of the ancients, we cannot exactly ascertain the measure.