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English
Etymology
Latin debacchatio.
Noun
debacchation (usually uncountable, plural debacchations)
- (archaic) wild raving or debauchery, as if drunk.
1632, William Prynne, Histrio-Mastix, Part I, page 538, Act VI:What confidence can such have of the suffrage of the saints, who defile their holiday with most foolish vanities, most impure pollutions, most wicked debacchations, and sacrilegious execrations.
1820, POLWHELE, The enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists considered by Bishop Lavington, page 249:In that convulsive, nervous disorder, called hysterics, the patients are affected with divers strange, inconsistent and contrary symptoms; […] are weak, sad, fearful, and suspicious ; grow stiff and immovable, and again flexible ; then falling into a fit of rage, quarrelling, and debacchation ; so strong as scarce to be held by three or four persons
- 1920, Princeton Alumni Weekly, princeton alumni weekly, page 116
- Among those whose presence lent either a tone of dignity or debacchation to the far-famed occasion were: Beekman, Bixler, Boyd, Carver, Caemr, Collins