Bacchic
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or honoring Bacchus.
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(lowercase) riotously or jovially intoxicated; drunken.
adjective
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of or relating to Bacchus
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(often not capital) riotously drunk
Etymology
Origin of Bacchic
1660–70; < Latin Bacchicus < Greek Bakkhikós. See Bacchus, -ic
Example Sentences
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And what about that old Scrabble lifesaver “euoi” — “a cry of impassioned rapture in ancient Bacchic revels?”
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2018
In Constantinople, the spiritual headquarters of Eastern Christendom, the seventh-century church was still frantically trying to ban the Bacchanalian festivities that legitimized cross-dressing, mask-wearing and Bacchic adulation.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2018
The effect, as one art historian has noted, “is like one of the Bacchic scenes from a villa at Pompeii.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2017
Idealized landscapes, preferably misty, thronged with the gods of Greece, Valhalla toughs and Bacchic satyrs like some sort of mythological beaux-arts ball.
From Time Magazine Archive
In other respects the festival is celebrated almost exactly as Bacchic festivals are in Greece, excepting that the Egyptians have no choral dances.
From Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Hargrave Jennings
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