choric

[ kawr-ik, kohr- ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or written for a chorus.

choric

/ ˈkɒrɪk /

adjective

1. of, like, for, or in the manner of a chorus, esp of singing, dancing, or the speaking of verse

Word History and Origins

Origin of choric¹

1810–20; < Late Latin choricus < Greek chorikós, equivalent to chor ( ós ) chorus + -ikos -ic

Example Sentences

Hardy plays Mark, a minicab driver who has a choric function, singing about his own expertise on the subject of psychopathic homicide.

From The Guardian

Even critics who were mostly negative about the film appreciated this, with 7 Days confirming: "The scenario is full of symmetry and recurrence," and The Village Voice remarking on the film working "by reprises, choric refrains."

From Salon

This choric hostility was in both cases essentially socio-cultural, and not literary.

From The Guardian

Billed as a “fictionalized account of real events,” the play comes with an epilogue, spoken with the house lights up by Ms. Armin, whose character’s status as neither British nor a politician allows her to act as a choric figure of sorts.

From New York Times

In his weaker writing, there creeps into the verse a slightly reflexive, choric fatalism, a sacralizing of the land’s conflicts, in which Israel is evoked as a place haplessly soaked in thousands of years of religious strife: “In my land, called holy, / they won’t let eternity be: / they’ve divided it into little religions, / zoned it for God-zones.”

From The New Yorker