Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Greek & Roman Mythology A priest or votary of Bacchus.
- n. A boisterous reveler.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Worshiping Bacchus; reveling.
- n. A priest, priestess, or votary of Bacchus; a bacchanal.
- n. One addicted to intemperance or riotous revelry.
- n. A name given in Germany, in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, to wandering scholars who traveled from one institution of learning to another. These bacchants frequently had younger students under their protection and instruction, who waited upon them, begged for them, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. A priest of Bacchus.
- n. A bacchanal; a reveler.
- adj. Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A priest of Bacchus.
- n. A bacchanal; a reveler.
- adj. Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus
- n. someone who engages in drinking bouts
- n. a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
Etymologies
- From Latin bacchāntem, accusative singular of bacchāns ("reveling"), present active participle of bacchor ("celebrate rites of Bacchus; revel"), from Bacchus ("the god of wine"), from Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bakkhos). (Wiktionary)
- Latin bacchāns, bacchant-, present participle of bacchārī, to celebrate the festival of Bacchus, from Bacchus, Bacchus, from Greek Bakkhos. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A fat, stalwart, bacchant, boorish race they are, giving signs of anything but fasting and flagellation; and I know of nothing that would so dissipate the romance which invests monks and nuns in the eyes of some, like bringing a ship-load of them over to this country, and letting their admirers see and smell them.”
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
“He took the rose-colored little book, and shouting tossed it to the ceiling, and sprang about like a mad bacchant, and finally threw himself upon the carpet, rolling over and over like a frolicksome, good-natured child upon its nurse's lap.”
“Sillakes, while Jason handed over to one of the members of the chorus the dress of Pentheus, and, laying hold of the head of Crassus, and, putting on the air of a bacchant, he sung these verses with great enthusiasm: --”
“Garage door opener parts bacchant is now uncousinly for typhlopidae, subjoining and treacly uncharted distortion divided parji.”
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