Bacchanalian

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bacchanalian \Bac`cha*na"li*an\ (b[a^]k`k[.a]*n[=a]"l[i^]*an;
     106), a.
     Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or
     given to reveling and drunkenness.
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           Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. --Cowper.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bacchanalian \Bac`cha*na"li*an\, n.
     A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bacchanalian
       adj : used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of
             bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken
             soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" [syn: {bacchanal}, {bacchic},
              {carousing}, {orgiastic}]