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
I read this book while tracing the historical footprint of the Bacchic cult.
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
He is an old man and blind, leaning upon a staff and moving with slow stateliness, though wearing the Ivy and the Bacchic fawn-skin.
From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes
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