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bacchic
Part of speech: AdjectiveJovial; drunken.
Usage examples "bacchic":- Even such good harvest of the things that flee Earth offers her subjected, and they choose Rather of Bacchic Youth one beam to drink, And warm slow marrow with the sensual wink. - "The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith", George Meredith.
- The Bacchic enthusiast believed himself possessed with the very ecstasy of the spirit of nature. - "The Psychology of Beauty", Ethel D. Puffer.
- Do thou but for one night feign his form, and, boy as thou art, put on the familiar face of a boy; so when in festal cheer, amid royal dainties and Bacchic juice, Dido shall take thee to her lap, shall fold thee in her clasp and kiss thee close and sweet, thou mayest imbreathe a hidden fire and unsuspected poison. - "The Aeneid of Virgil", Virgil.