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• n  a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing
• n  (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus)

• The dynamic, petite and greatly gifted Alice Playten makes a spastic dithyramb of her takeoff on Mick Jagger.
• When he settles down to guzzle beer, which is most of the time, his incredible yarns tumble over each other in a wild Welsh dithyramb in which truth and fact become hopelessly .
• For the next 20 minutes Teddy repeated his familiar dithyramb to the Kennedys' longtime political handyman.