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Bacchic

adjective
1.
Used of riotously drunken merrymaking.  Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, carousing, orgiastic.  "Carousing bands of drunken soldiers" , "Orgiastic festivity"






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"Bacchic" Quotes from Famous Books



... accordance with the fancies of a crazy prophetess. It is significant of the ossification of the Romano-Hellenic religion as well as of the increased craving of the multitude after stronger religious stimulants, that superstition no longer, as in the Bacchic mysteries, associates itself with the national religion; even the Etruscan mysticism is already left behind; the worships matured in the sultry regions of the east appear throughout in the foremost rank. The copious introduction of elements from Asia Minor and Syria into the population, ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... shock to his artistic eye. These were the eyes of a girl who had raved like a maenad the night through. Had she not slept in her quiet little room; had she been rushing with Alexander in the wild Bacchic rout; or had something dreadful ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers



Words linked to "Bacchic" :   bacchanal, carousing, inebriated, drunk, intoxicated, bacchanalian



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