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Bacchante, n. (and a.)|bəˈkɑːnt, -æ-, ˈbækənt, bəˈkæntiː|
[a. F. bacchante, ad. L. Bacchāntem: see prec. The first pronunciation is after the Fr.; the third after It. (etc.) baccante, favoured perhaps by the fact that the plural (of both genders) is often Bacchantes (-ˈæntiːz) after L.]
A. n. A priestess or female votary of Bacchus.
1797Holcroft tr. Stolberg's Trav. III. lxxvii. (ed. 2) 170 She capered with the intoxication of a Bacchante. 1811L. M. Hawkins C'tess & Gertr. I. 313 Whether male or female, a bacchante, or a Silenus. 1847Longfellow Ev. ii. 2 To follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes.
B. attrib. as adj.: cf. Bacchant.
1821Byron Juan iv. xcii, A Bacchante blooming visage. 1868H. Lee B. Godfrey l. 283 Emmot laughed with her bacchante air. |