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bacchanalian
Part of speech: AdjectivePertaining to the Bacchanalia, a feast in honor of Bacchus, the god of wine; hence, pertaining to drunkenness and revelry. Also, bacchanal.
Usage examples "bacchanalian":- If bacchanalian songs are to be written at all, this certainly must be pronounced " The king amang them a'." - "Robert Burns", Principal Shairp.
- There are poems belonging to the group of bacchanalian songs, pronounced during the toast, and resounding with many refrains. - "An Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry; Serbian Lyrics", Various.
- Accordingly he devised those Carnival triumphs and processions which filled the sombre streets of Florence with Bacchanalian revellers, and the ears of her grave citizens with ill- disguised obscenity. - "The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti", John Addington Symonds.