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WORD FOR THE DAY: CORYBANTIC
wordsmith.org | 8/30/17

Posted on 08/29/2017 8:53:09 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

CORYBANTIC (kor-i-BAN-tik)

hear it pronounced

adjective

Wild; frenzied; uncontrolled.

An eponymn named for Corybant, an ancient priest of Phrygian goddess Cybele, who performed wild ecstatic dances in her worship.

"The radio is nothing but a conduit through which pre-fabricated din can flow into our homes. And this din goes far deeper, of course, than the eardrums. It penetrates the mind, filling it with a babble of distractions, blasts of corybantic or sentimental music, continually repeated doses of drama that bring no catharsis, but usually create a craving for daily or even hourly emotional enemas." Aldous Huxley; On Silence; 1946.


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1 posted on 08/29/2017 8:53:09 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
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To: Louis Foxwell; xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...

This beautiful word came up in an FR post today and was recommended by a reader.
Sounds like fun. There are all sorts of uses. The asinine antics of the MSM are first in line.
Criticizing the FLOTUS for wearing heels in the WH as she embarked to flooded Houston were she disembarked in sensible sneakers is a perfect illustration of a corybantic columnist searching frantically for justification for his/her insane NeverTrumpism.
Enjoy!


2 posted on 08/29/2017 8:59:56 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

A Cory Booker presidency would knock me for a corybantic loop.


3 posted on 08/29/2017 9:16:34 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Louis Foxwell

The antifa is nothing but a pre-fabricated communist agitprop and din that flows into our homes via the MSM. And this din goes far deeper, of course, than the eardrums. It penetrates the mind, filling it with a babble of distractions, blasts of corybantic blather, continually disrupting our once patriotic views of our cherished nation.


4 posted on 08/29/2017 9:20:11 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Louis Foxwell

The Antifa thug was much less corybantic after taking a pepper ball to the groin.


5 posted on 08/29/2017 9:39:37 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

When Hillary Rotten Crappoon began reading to the tiny crowd from her new miserable, whiny, bitchy-loser-book, all of a sudden she began to spasmodically twitch uncontrollably, in her patented, corybantic manner.


       


6 posted on 08/29/2017 9:41:31 PM PDT by Songcraft (Praise the Lord! Psalm 147:1)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Careful! They might fly into corybantic rage:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3581704/posts


7 posted on 08/29/2017 9:57:44 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

The Phrygian Mode, with its minor second right at the beginning of the Scale, has a rather exotic and corybantic sound to it that lends itself to mystical rock anthem guitar solos.


8 posted on 08/29/2017 10:07:52 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

My, you sure have a way with words!

CA....


9 posted on 08/29/2017 10:09:32 PM PDT by Chances Are (Seems I've found that silly grin again....)
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To: Chances Are

Using a word like that makes me feel like William F. Buckley, Jr.


10 posted on 08/29/2017 10:25:16 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

The democrats now getting frantic
As ANTIFA goes wild, corybantic
Even WaPo and Newsweek
Have decided to speak
Out against them; who’s next—The Atllantic?


11 posted on 08/30/2017 5:58:50 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Be careful, Kimmy. Our President is Trump, not Obama!)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Mobs of corybantic AntiFa terrorists are a common feature of urban life, especially in leftist enclaves like Berkeley!!!!


12 posted on 08/30/2017 6:54:24 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Antifa is many things, all Democrat
Feral, wild, corybantic scurrying rat
Beating up on old men
Put them in the pen
Before we get hit with a baseball bat.


13 posted on 08/30/2017 7:40:09 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga
Found our logo... ...sort of
14 posted on 08/30/2017 7:41:54 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Louis Foxwell

The Kerryfrantic news media came close to giving us another democrat president, and Bush came close to giving it to them.


15 posted on 08/30/2017 7:46:53 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: left that other site

A little tune is in order, as illustrative of our WFTD.


16 posted on 08/30/2017 7:53:26 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

As well you should. The Master philologian would have reveled in WFTD.


17 posted on 08/30/2017 7:56:05 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

The tide may yet turn and drown the antiTrumpers in their own bile. A corybantic time will be ad by all.


18 posted on 08/30/2017 7:57:41 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

He was. Wasn’t he!


19 posted on 08/30/2017 7:58:44 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: tioga

“MonkeyView??” Oh well. Happy to have it back.


20 posted on 08/30/2017 8:00:29 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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