What's the difference between corybantic and orgiastic?

Corybantic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But for the most part the book is a kind of corybantic frieze of all-too-human mankind, its characters parading unforgettably past us, insinuating themselves permanently into our imaginations, populating our mental landscapes.

Orgiastic


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, orgies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because of course nothing is more destructive of the sanctity of his own vocation than the suggestion that we simply don't need this kind of conservation – if that's what it really is – at all; that on the contrary, the entire "relaunch" is simply the bastard offspring of an orgiastic union between Mammon and science, consummated on the Stonehenge altar stone and observed by the fee-paying public.
  • (2) Other newspapers, too, wallowed in the rumours of orgiastic high court judges, sado-masochistic cabinet ministers and aristocratic sex slaves wearing cards that read 'If my services don't please you, whip me'.
  • (3) The effect of this procedure is to increase both excitatory and orgiastic capabilities.
  • (4) After all, without witnessing God's carcinogenic judgment rain down upon the lotharios of this world once in a while, how could we possibly stop our children from descending into chaotic, amoral rabbles of orgiastic anarchy?
  • (5) The Bacchus title relates to a recurring theme in his work: the red is the colour of both blood and wine, an echo of the orgiastic rites of the god's worshippers.
  • (6) Flowers is the definitive Kemp work: orgiastic, violent, teetering constantly on the verge of bathos, and thoroughly homosexual.
  • (7) However, the Dionysiac celebrants at this orgiastic 60s happening aren't beautiful hippies, but late-middle-aged suburbanites.
  • (8) By conflating the victims of serial sexual predators with enthusiastic participants in "a heaving carnival of orgiastic sex", he is implying that the victims of these criminals were actively complicit in their own abuse.
  • (9) A full blast of pleasure, of orgiastic potency, would enable you to see you'd been living badly, or not, according to your nature.

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