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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If you know of another way to identify a cry of impassioned rapture in ancient Bacchic revels, I’d like to hear it.
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
I read this book while tracing the historical footprint of the Bacchic cult.
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2018
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
The favorable side of the worship of Dionysius or the Bacchic revels has been shown by Euripides in his play the Bacchae.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert
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