Bacchic

[bak-ik]

adjective

of, relating to, or honoring Bacchus.

(lowercase) riotously or jovially intoxicated; drunken.

Origin of Bacchic

1660–70; < Latin Bacchicus < Greek Bakkhikós. See Bacchus, -ic

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Examples from the Web for bacchic

Historical Examples of bacchic

This apartment has also six medallions with heads of Bacchic personages.
Museum of Antiquity
L. W. Yaggy
The subject of this sculpture seems to be a Bacchic procession.
The Gates of India
Thomas Holdich
It ran in the direction of Orphic and Bacchic Thrace to the north.
Opuscula
Robert Gordon Latham
Jonson, in the Bacchic phraseology of the day, was “a Canary-bird.”
Calamities and Quarrels of Authors
Isaac Disraeli
In two seconds the ladies had entered into our Bacchic plot.
The Works of Honor de Balzac
Honor de Balzac

British Dictionary definitions for bacchic

Bacchic

adjective

of or relating to Bacchus

(often not capital) riotously drunk

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