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Bacchanal, a. and n.|ˈbækənəl|
Forms: 6 bacchinall, 7 bachinal, bachanal(e, -nel, backenal, 6– bacchanal.
[ad. L. bacchānālis, also bāccā-, bācā-, f. Bacchus, Gr. βάκχος god of wine.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to Bacchus or his worship.
1550Nicolls Thucyd. 50 (R.) Unto whom was yearely celebrated the feast bacchanal. a1789Burney Hist. Mus. I. 61 Styles of Melopœia; (1) the Dithyrambic or Bacchanal.
2. Indulging in drunken revelry; riotously drunken, roystering.
1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. 364 A bacchinal nymph. 1762Falconer To Dk. York 144 Exulting with bacchanal rage. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. Ded., The bacchanal roar of the songs of exultation.
B. n.
1. A priest or priestess, votary, or devotee of Bacchus; a Bacchant or Bacchante.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. v. i. 48 The riot of the tipsie Bachanals. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 85 Like a franticke Bacchinall, she stampt. 1853Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. ix. 113 To them the bacchanal appeared a being half inspired.
2. A drunken reveller.
1812Byron Ch. Har. i. vi, And now Childe Harold..from his fellow bacchanals would flee. 1841H. Smith Moneyed Man II. ix. 311, I detest myself, degraded bacchanal as I am.
3. (Usually pl.) A festival in honour of Bacchus. [L. Bacchanalia.]
1616in Bullokar. 1636Healey Theophrast. To Rdr., These were preparatives to those more solemne Bacchanals or Corrivals [? for Convivals]. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. III. 544 Intemperance and Excess in the Heathen Bacchanals was esteemed an Act of religious Joy.
4. An occasion of drunken revelry; an orgy.
1536Latimer 2nd Serm. bef. Convoc. I. 52 The solemn and nocturnal bacchanals. 1673Lady's Call. ii. i. §23 That a marriage-day is but a kind of bacchanal, a more licens'd avow'd revel. 1795Burke Regic. Peace IX. 118 At their debauches and bacchanals.
fig.1860Sir T. Martin Horace 110 Where mists and snows..Hold reckless bacchanal.
5. A dance or song in honour of Bacchus.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. vii. 110 Shall we daunce now the Egyptian Backenals? 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 693 Where Bacchanals are sung by Spartan Maids. 1780Cowper Table T. 602 Genius danced a bacchanal.
6. A scene of revelry painted or sculptured.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Bacchanalia, Bacchanals, pictures or basso relievos, whereon the feast is represented, consisting chiefly of dancings, nudities, and the like. 1762H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) III. 32 A Bacchanal of..naked boys, sitting on a tub, the wine running out. |