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Meanings of bacchic in English

Used of riotously drunken merrymaking.

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Usage of bacchic in English
1
A bacchic emulation reigned, which threatened to end in scenes bordering upon a debauch.
Gerfaut — Volume 4
2
The Syrian damsels, who appeared at first in the bacchic dance, mingled now with the guests.
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
3
Is the bike transforming this staid old world into one wild bacchic orgy or phallic revel?
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 01
4
Woman has filled the world with war's alarms, and the bacchic revel has ended in the brawl.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12
5
It is a liquor worthy to be sung at Teos and at the Temple by the princes of bacchic poets, Anacreon and Chaulieu.
The Queen Pedauque
6
It was not the arrangements of the beersellers, which were formidably Bacchic.
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
7
The form of the legend was somewhat differently incorporated with the Bacchic Mysteries.
The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
8
When she applied the soft pedal the Bacchic revel became a silent prayer.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 01
9
There is also a sarcophagus with bas-relief of a Bacchic procession, remarkably fine.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 / A Magazine...
10
The lonesome little glow will be remembered as a Bacchic orgy.
Once there was a war
11
Moving it within doors backward and forward, and practicing Bacchic revelry, I disarranged it.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
12
No Bacchic revels on Mount Parnassus were ever more corybantic.
All Around the Moon
13
It is not feverish, grimy, rude, strenuous, Bacchic, and wicked.
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
14
Trinc then: what says your heart, elevated by Bacchic enthusiasm?
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
15
The Bacchic enthusiast believed himself possessed with the very ecstasy of the spirit of nature.
The Psychology of Beauty
16
He went deriding the God and your Bacchic revels.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
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