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English
Etymology
From Bacchanalia + -an.
Pronunciation
Adjective
Bacchanalian (not comparable)
- (Roman and Greek mythology) Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus, relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
- Near-synonyms: bacchic, bacchian; Dionysiac, Dionysian; dionysiac, dionysian
1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error:Even Bacchanalian madness has its charms.
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Noun
Bacchanalian (plural Bacchanalians)
- A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
1894, George du Maurier, “Part Third”, in Trilby: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 165:With the help of a sleepy waiter, Little Billee got the bacchanalian into his room and lit his candle for him, and, disengaging himself from his maudlin embraces, left him to wallow in solitude.
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