bacchanalian
11bacchanalian — adjective used of riotously drunken merrymaking a night of bacchanalian revelry carousing bands of drunken soldiers orgiastic festivity • Syn: ↑bacchanal, ↑bacchic, ↑carousing, ↑orgiastic …
12bacchanalian — adjective or noun see bacchanalia …
13Bacchanalian — See Bacchanalia. * * * …
14bacchanalian — [16] Bákkhos was the Greek god of wine. Son of Zeus and Semele, he was also known as Diónūsos. The Romans adopted him, amending his name to Bacchus, and his worshippers went in for a brand of licentious revelry, in his honour, known as… …
15Bacchanalian — In Roman mythology, Bacchus, the equivalent of the Greek Dionysus, was the respected god of wine and vineyards. It was he who planted the vine. The triennial festivals paying homage to the harvest were originally characterized by propriety and …
16bacchanalian — bac·cha·na·li·an || ‚bækÉ™ neɪljÉ™n adj. pertaining to the Bacchanalia (Roman holiday celebrating Bacchus, god of wine); pertaining to a drunken revelry …
17bacchanalian — n., a. See bacchanal …
18bacchanalian — adj orgiastic, saturnalian, bacchanal, bacchic, drunken, dissolute, debauched, dissipated; riotous, wild, frenzied, frenetic, mad; abandoned, wanton, licentious, intemperate, Dionysian, uninhibited, unrestrained, undisciplined; festive, gay,… …
19bacchanalian — bac·cha·na·lian …
20bacchanalian — [16] Bákkhos was the Greek god of wine. Son of Zeus and Semele, he was also known as Diónūsos. The Romans adopted him, amending his name to Bacchus, and his worshippers went in for a brand of licentious revelry, in his honour, known as… …
