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Bacchanalian, a. and n.|bækəˈneɪlɪən|
Also 7 bachan-, 8 bacchin-.
[f. L. bacchānāli-s, Bacchanal + -an.]
A. adj.
1. Of, connected with, or relating to Bacchanals.
1622Paradox in Harl. Misc. I. 267 Scarce sufficient to make a Bacchanalian sacrifice. 1623Cockeram, Bacchanalean frowes, Women-Bacchus-Priests. 1816Gentl. Mag. LXXXVI. 4 An antique vase, with Bacchanalian masks.
2. Characterized by, connected with, or given to drunken revelry; riotously drunken, roystering.
1565Stow Chron. (R.) Shamelesse drunken bacchanalian women. 1609Dekker Gul's Hornebk. (1812) 21 Or else, haunting taverns, desires to take the bacchanalian degree. 1750Johnson Rambl. No. 71 ⁋6 We are importuned by the bacchanalian writers to lay hold on the present hour. 1878H. Stanley Dark Cont. I. viii. 172 Began to chant in bacchanalian tones, a song that was tipsily discordant.
B. n. A bacchanal, a drunken reveller, a tippler.
1617Assheton Jrnl. (1848) 50 All this morning we plaid the bacchanalians. a1704T. Brown To Yng. Lady Wks. 1730 I. 66 Let Bacchanalians..Hunt out champagne. 1870Anderson Missions Amer. Bd. II. iv. 28 In all the disorder of a troop of bacchanalians.
Bacchaˈnalianism, ˈBacchanalism, bacchanalian practices, drunken revelry. Bacchaˈnalianly adv., with drunken revelry (in Webster 1864).
1855Scot. Rev. 267 To lend the power of his genius to bacchanalianism. 1858Lady Wallace Fredk. Gt. II. 214 Four years of bacchanalism..which the Count had passed. |