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Bacchic, a. (n.)|ˈbækɪk|
[ad. L. Bacchicus, a. Gr. βακχικός of Bacchus. Cf. F. Bacchique.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to Bacchus or his worship.
1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. ii. iii. 30 The Bacchic Music was famous throughout Asia. 1736Stukeley Palæogr. Sacra 39 (T.) The bacchick orgia were celebrated on the tops of hills. 1843Mrs. H. Gray Sepul. Etruria iv. 189 Gracefully twined with branches of bacchic ivy.
2. Inspired with the frenzy of a votary of Bacchus, frenzied; riotously drunken, roystering, jovial.
1699Burnet 39 Art. xxiii. (1700) 255 Women Priests..filled with a Bacchick Fury. 1865Miss Muloch Chr. Mistake 17 He..then broke into a broad, genial laugh, quite Bacchic. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece xi. 330 note, Like Bacchic maidens who draw milk and honey from the rivers.
†B. (absol. as) n. A drinking-song. Obs.
1676G. Etherege Man of Mode iv. i. (1684) 57 Let us have the new Bachique. O. Bell. That's a hard word! What does it mean, Sir? Med. A Catch, or drinking Song. |