单词 | bacchante |
释义 | Bacchanten.adj. A. n. A priestess or female votary of Bacchus. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of a deity > one who worships Bacchus frow1567 Bacchanal1594 Bacchant1699 Bacchante1797 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > ancient Greek > of Bacchus frow1567 maenad1579 Bacchanal1594 Bacchant1699 Bacchante1797 Thyiad1846 1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxvii. 170 She capered with the intoxication of a Bacchante. 1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. xv. 313 Whether male or female, a bacchante, or a Silenus. 1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline ii. 2 To follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. B. adj. cf. Bacchant n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [adjective] > of deities > of Bacchus Bacchanal1550 Bacchanalian1622 Bacchic1669 Bacchante1821 Bacchantic1845 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV xcii. 117 A Bacchante blooming visage. 1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice l. 283 Emmot laughed with her bacchante air. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.adj.1797 |
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