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Dionysian, a.|daɪəˈnɪsɪən|
[f. L. Dionȳsi-us of or pertaining to Dionysus or Bacchus; also as n. a personal name + -an.]
1. Of or pertaining to Dionysus or Bacchus, or the Dionysia or festivals held in honour of Dionysus; = dionysiac.
a1610Healey Theophrastus (1636) 13 The Seas after the Dionysian feasts will be more smooth. 1822T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. p. xxiii, The Dionysian festivals..were the great carnivals of antiquity.
2. Pertaining to or characteristic of the Elder or Younger Dionysius, tyrants of Syracuse, notorious for cruelty.
1607Topsell Serpents (1658) 839 Who..would not..hate..those Dionysian Tyrants in Sicilia? 1879Encycl. Brit. IX. 688/2 He..punished with Dionysian severity the slightest want of respect.
3. Pertaining to the abbot Dionysius the Little, who lived in the sixth century, and is said to have first practised the method of dating events from the birth of Christ of which he fixed the accepted date.
Dionysian period, a period of 532 Julian years, after which the changes of the moon recur on the same days of the year; said to have been introduced by Dionysius for calculating the date of Easter.
1727–52Chambers Cycl. s.v. Period, Victorian Period, an interval of five hundred and thirty-two Julian years..Some ascribe this period to Dionysius Exiguus; and hence call it the Dionysian Period. 1768Horsefall in Phil. Trans. LVIII. 102 Encreased by three dionysian periods, or multiples of 28 and 19. 1876Chambers Astron. 470 The Dionysian Period is obtained by a combination of the Lunar and Solar cycles. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 11 Our received Dionysian era.
4. Of Dionysius the Areopagite (Acts xvii. 34); esp. applied to early ecclesiastical works attributed to him.
1885Catholic Dict. 264/1 Pearson places the composition of the Dionysian writings before 340. |