"dithyrambic" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1907, William James, Pragmatism",
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          "ref": "2000, Ian C. Johnston, The Birth of Tragedy http://books.google.com/books?id=ufCCJUFo-LMC by Friedrich Nietzsche, page 104",
          "text": "The dithyrambic chorus is a chorus of transformed people, for whom their social past, their civic position, is entirely forgotten."
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          "ref": "2005, William Forbes Gray, Some Old Scots Judges: Anecdotes and Impressions, page 25",
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