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Meanings of bacchanalian in English

Used of riotously drunken merrymaking.

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        Usage of bacchanalian in English
        1
        Bressant looked up and recognized the rustic bacchanalian for the first time.
        Bressant: A Novel
        2
        But my social recollections of Baltimore are by no means exclusively bacchanalian.
        Border and Bastille
        3
        Two bacchanalian pictures on the wall suddenly had yawning wounds in their centre.
        Ben Blair / The Story of a Plainsman
        4
        And up starts a wild, dissolute, bacchanalian glee for seven voices.
        "My Novel" — Volume 06
        5
        It was really a bacchanalian blowout, and we're all feeling the effects of it.
        The new yorker
        6
        Much has been made of your period of bacchanalian excess.
        The Guardian
        7
        And he struck up one of his favourite bacchanalian chants-
        Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks / Book Number Fifteen...
        8
        Pentheus was torn in pieces by the bacchanalian priests and women, for despising their mysteries.
        The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside
        9
        A staff, or spear, wreathed round with ivy: of constant use in the bacchanalian mysteries.
        The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside
        10
        Before the prison bacchanalian feasts and dances were celebrated at fires, around casks of wine.
        Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
        11
        The dancing and shouting of the children around the fire had become even more bacchanalian.
        Earth Abides
        12
        The toast of La Friponne was drunk with applause, followed by a wild bacchanalian song.
        The Golden Dog
        13
        Thunderous Shangri-Las that hint at summers of bacchanalian magnificence.
        The Irish Times
        14
        Gay paper-lamps hung among the branches, a large orchestra played, and a half-bacchanalian wood-ball commenced.
        O. T., A Danish Romance
        15
        They seemed mad with intoxication of victory; they mocked me with a bacchanalian frenzy of triumph.
        Prisoner for Blasphemy
        16
        Throughout the over 20-minute scene, Depardieu appears naked and flits from one bacchanalian encounter to another.
        Reuters
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