Saturnalian

Doubtless, there is in it a pre-Christian mystery which recalls the Saturnalian feasts or some rout of the Bacchanals.

Appendix. IV. The Cabbage 1917

Doubtless, there is in it a pre-Christian mystery which recalls the Saturnalian feasts or some rout of the Bacchanals.

La mare au diable. English George Sand 1840

* In this period of the Greek comedy, these appeals to the theatre had a kind of Saturnalian privilege for personalities of the coarsest sort.

Comedies. Translated into English, with notes [by Richard Cumberland and others] 1812

How would the people of Rhode Island have reacted if the governor had called the tree a "Saturnalian Tree"?

Jeffrey Small: The Origins Of Christmas Jeffrey Small 2011

This was Casper, Wyoming, I should add -- not exactly a place where you would expect to find a classroom re-enacting Saturnalian rituals.

Audrey Watters: Beyond Ratings: Teacher Evaluations Don't Tell The Whole Story Audrey Watters 2011

This was Casper, Wyoming, I should add -- not exactly a place where you would expect to find a classroom re-enacting Saturnalian rituals.

Audrey Watters: Beyond Ratings: Teacher Evaluations Don't Tell The Whole Story Audrey Watters 2011

But I hold it good to pardon such freedoms on a march, in respect of the Saturnalian license indulged in such cases to the troops of all nations.

A Legend of Montrose 2008

Saturnalian or Dionysian feasts, when as he said, nullum libertati periculum est, servants in old Rome had liberty to say and do what them list.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Another rip-off of those pagan party animals, who swapped presents during ancient Rome's Saturnalian shindigs.

Archive 2006-12-01 2006

Another rip-off of those pagan party animals, who swapped presents during ancient Rome's Saturnalian shindigs.

Some medieval origins for Christmas 2006