bacchant
noun
a priest, priestess, or votary of Bacchus; bacchanal.
bacchantes
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pluralof bacchant.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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They also show off by picking up guitars and microphones and dancing like prairie bacchantes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2019
The tension is not in the contest but in the axiomatic revelation uttered by the chorus of the bacchantes: "Knowledge is not wisdom."
From Time Magazine Archive
The four faces of the base become encircled with crowns, and, to the noise of drums and cymbals, the bacchantes dance round about the temple.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
Again he says that the bacchantes, possessed by the god, drink milk and honey from the rivers, and cannot believe, till they recover their senses, that they have been drinking mere water.
From The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by James Russell Lowell
Then occurs another outflow from the thyrsus and cup, and another round of the bacchantes to the sound of drums and cymbals.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
