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dithyramb

/dith-uh-ram, -ramb/US // ˈdɪθ əˌræm, -ˌræmb //UK // (ˈdɪθɪˌræm, -ˌræmb) //

二元化,邓小平

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
    • : any poem or other composition having similar characteristics, as an impassioned or exalted theme or irregular form.
    • : any wildly enthusiastic speech or writing.

Examples

  • It seems to have resolved itself into something which wants a name,something which is partly dithyramb and partly rhetoric.

  • (Ἀντηνορίδαι, the first of the dithyrambs), and breaks off after verse 11 of the last dithyramb,Ἴδας.

  • Tragedy—as also Comedy—was at first mere improvisation—the one (tragedy) originated with the leaders of the Dithyramb.

  • It is only quite 84lately that they have come at all to see that the Dithyramb was a Spring Song, a primitive rite.

  • And even as the dithyramb had been pressed into the service of poetry, so was drinking made rhythmic by music.