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Dionysiac, a.|daɪəˈnɪsɪæk| [ad. L. Dionȳsiac-us, a. Gr. Διονῡσιακός, f. Διονῡ́σια the feast of Διόνῡσος Dionysus or Bacchus. So mod.F. Dionysiaque (Acad. 1762).] A. adj. Of or pertaining to Dionysus or Bacchus, or to his worship.
1844Beck & Felton tr. Munk's Met. 149 Dionysiac and erotic poems. 1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. ix. iv. §4. 236 The new Dionysiac revel. 1865Grote Plato II. xxiii. 162 The Orphic or Dionysiac religious mysteries. 1871Browning Balaust. 37 Ours the great Dionusiac theatre, And tragic triad of immortal fames. B. n. pl. The Dionysiac festivals or Dionysia, celebrated periodically in ancient Greece.
1827–38Hare Guesses (1867) 154 At Athens, Homer, the Dionysiacs and Pericles, by their united influence, fostered them into dramatists. So Dionyˈsiacal a.; Dionyˈsiacally adv.
1858Hogg Shelly II. xi. 373 The goat is a Dionysiacal quadruped, habitually given to scale Parnassus. 1816T. Taylor in Pamphleteer VIII. 57 The mundane intellect..is Bacchus..the soul is particularly distributed into generation Dionysiacally. |