Used of riotously drunken merrymaking.
1 Bressant looked up and recognized the rustic bacchanalian for the first time.
2 But my social recollections of Baltimore are by no means exclusively bacchanalian .
3 Two bacchanalian pictures on the wall suddenly had yawning wounds in their centre.
4 And up starts a wild, dissolute, bacchanalian glee for seven voices.
5 It was really a bacchanalian blowout, and we're all feeling the effects of it.
6 Much has been made of your period of bacchanalian excess.
7 And he struck up one of his favourite bacchanalian chants-
8 Pentheus was torn in pieces by the bacchanalian priests and women, for despising their mysteries.
9 A staff, or spear, wreathed round with ivy: of constant use in the bacchanalian mysteries.
10 Before the prison bacchanalian feasts and dances were celebrated at fires, around casks of wine.
11 The dancing and shouting of the children around the fire had become even more bacchanalian .
12 The toast of La Friponne was drunk with applause, followed by a wild bacchanalian song.
13 Thunderous Shangri-Las that hint at summers of bacchanalian magnificence.
14 Gay paper-lamps hung among the branches, a large orchestra played, and a half - bacchanalian wood-ball commenced.
15 They seemed mad with intoxication of victory; they mocked me with a bacchanalian frenzy of triumph.
16 Throughout the over 20-minute scene, Depardieu appears naked and flits from one bacchanalian encounter to another.
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