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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Greek & Roman Mythology Of or relating to Bacchus.
  • adjective Drunken and carousing; bacchanalian.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to or in honor of Bacchus; connected with bacchanalian rites or revelries.
  • Jovial; drunken; mad with intoxication: as, a Bacchic reveler.
  • [lowercase] Same as bacchiac.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous, with intoxication; riotously drunken; -- used of revelrous gatherings.

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  • adjective Alternative spelling of bacchic.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective used of riotously drunken merrymaking

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Examples

  • I never understood how it was that he respected me, for he was quite drunk, and in a kind of Bacchic fury.

    The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

  • I never understood how it was that he respected me, for he was quite drunk, and in a kind of Bacchic fury.

    Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 18: Return to Naples Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • I never understood how it was that he respected me, for he was quite drunk, and in a kind of Bacchic fury.

    The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • It is certainly difficult to play, not only for the pianist and orchestra – who must continually wrestle with dense, muddy scoring – but also the piano itself, which barely survived the final cadenza, the muscular Denis Matsuev's assault on the instrument egged on by Bacchic interjections from woodwind and brass.

    Matsuev/LSO/Gergiev Guy Dammann 2010

  • To be sure, Pentheus hubristic decrees forbidding the Bacchic rites to take place in his city are transgressions of the natural order, rupturae on a higher level.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • To be sure, Pentheus hubristic decrees forbidding the Bacchic rites to take place in his city are transgressions of the natural order, rupturae on a higher level.

    Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009

  • The “rock rythm” itself is copied from the old Dionysian-Bacchic cults.

    Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation 2008

  • It is a product of classical studies of the ancient Phrygian terrorist cult of Satan-Dionysos, the model for the Roman Bacchic cults of similar characteristics.

    Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation 2008

  • Any dolt can see the connection between the mother-smothered Amis and the later unstoppable tit-man who was also a slave to Bacchic overindulgence.

    One Fraught Englishman 2007

  • Any dolt can see the connection between the mother-smothered Amis and the later unstoppable tit-man who was also a slave to Bacchic overindulgence.

    One Fraught Englishman 2007

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