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
This blond, blue-eyed, Bacchic roughneck had seven names before he died as Kam�l Atat�rk.
From Time Magazine Archive
The author of The Great Dionysiak Myth has ably presented the various forms of the Bacchic rites with the same basis and dénouement.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.
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