Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Greek & Roman Mythology Of or relating to Bacchus.
- adjective Drunken and carousing; bacchanalian.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or in honor of Bacchus; connected with bacchanalian rites or revelries.
- Jovial; drunken; mad with intoxication: as, a Bacchic reveler.
- [lowercase] Same as
bacchiac .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous, with intoxication; riotously drunken; -- used of revelrous gatherings.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative spelling of
bacchic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective used of riotously drunken merrymaking
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Examples
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I never understood how it was that he respected me, for he was quite drunk, and in a kind of Bacchic fury.
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I never understood how it was that he respected me, for he was quite drunk, and in a kind of Bacchic fury.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 18: Return to Naples Giacomo Casanova 1761
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I never understood how it was that he respected me, for he was quite drunk, and in a kind of Bacchic fury.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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It is certainly difficult to play, not only for the pianist and orchestra – who must continually wrestle with dense, muddy scoring – but also the piano itself, which barely survived the final cadenza, the muscular Denis Matsuev's assault on the instrument egged on by Bacchic interjections from woodwind and brass.
Matsuev/LSO/Gergiev Guy Dammann 2010
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To be sure, Pentheus hubristic decrees forbidding the Bacchic rites to take place in his city are transgressions of the natural order, rupturae on a higher level.
Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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To be sure, Pentheus hubristic decrees forbidding the Bacchic rites to take place in his city are transgressions of the natural order, rupturae on a higher level.
Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009
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The “rock rythm” itself is copied from the old Dionysian-Bacchic cults.
Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation 2008
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It is a product of classical studies of the ancient Phrygian terrorist cult of Satan-Dionysos, the model for the Roman Bacchic cults of similar characteristics.
Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation 2008
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Any dolt can see the connection between the mother-smothered Amis and the later unstoppable tit-man who was also a slave to Bacchic overindulgence.
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Any dolt can see the connection between the mother-smothered Amis and the later unstoppable tit-man who was also a slave to Bacchic overindulgence.
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