Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Bacchic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bacchic \Bac"chic\, Bacchical \Bac"chic*al\, a. [L. Bacchicus,
Gr. ?]
Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous,with
intoxication.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bacchic
adj : used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of
bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken
soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" [syn: {bacchanalian},
{bacchanal}, {carousing}, {orgiastic}]
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