Bacchanalian.
/bakəˈneɪlɪə/ 1. The festival held in honour of Bacchus.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > other seasons and feasts > classical > [noun] > Bacchus
trieteric1592
Bacchanala1610
Bacchanalia1753
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Tacitus gives an elegant description of the Bacchanalia.
1863 Haydn's Dict. Dates (ed. 11) (at cited word) In Rome the Bacchanalia were suppressed, 186 b.c.
2. Drunken revelry; a tippling bout, an orgy.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout
cups1406
drinking?1518
banquet1535
Bacchanal1536
pot-revel1577
compotation1593
rouse1604
Bacchanalia1633
potmealc1639
bout1670
drinking-bout1673
carouse1690
carousal1765
drunk1779
bouse1786
toot1790
set-to1808
spree1811
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screed1815
bust1834
lush1841
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bust-out1861
bum1863
booze1864
drink1865
ran-tan1866
cupping1868
crawl1877
hellbender1877
break-away1885
periodical1886
jag1894
booze-up1897
slopping-up1899
souse1903
pub crawl1915
blind1917
beer-up1919
periodic1920
scoot1924
brannigan1927
rumba1934
boozeroo1943
sesh1943
session1943
piss-up1950
pink-eye1958
binge drinking1964
1633 S. Marmion Fine Compan. ii. iv Drinks sack, and keeps his Bacchanalias.
1684 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 210 The squibs and bacchanalia of the Lord Mayor's Show.
1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur 283 The morning after the bacchanalia.
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society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > heathen general > [noun] > dance or song
Bacchanala1616
Bacchanalia1659
1659 J. Evelyn Char. Eng. 33 In Taverns, chanting their Dithyrambicks and bestiall Bacchanalias.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > others
quathriganc1175
starc1384
yoke1415
sheafc1420
arrow1548
thunder-dart1569
memento mori1598
quadriga1600
Triton1601
anchor1621
chimera1634
forest-work1647
Bacchanaliaa1680
Bacchanal1753
subject1781
harp1785
mask1790
arrowhead1808
gorgoneion1842
Amazonomachia1845
Amazonomachy1893
mythograph1893
physicomorph1895
horns of consecration1901
double image1939
motion study1977
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > drinking-song
drinking-song1597
wassail1607
Bacchic1676
Bacchanaliaa1680
epileny1708
tavern-song1823
wassail-song1829
pot-song1850
wassailing song1914
a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) ii. 117 A bachanalia piece, dugg out of the Temple of Bacchus.
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