Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bacchanalian"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bacchanalian \Bac`cha*na"li*an\, a.
Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or
given to reveling and drunkenness.
Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. --Cowper.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bacchanalian \Bac`cha*na"li*an\, n.
A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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