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- noun Plural form of
bacchant .
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Examples
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As the wedding party drank and danced like bacchants the freedmen who had once helped Messalina do her dirty work betrayed her.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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B17, “¦ and bacchants of pine stand round the well-built house” may represent a criticism of the common ancient belief that a god could assume possession of a physical object so as to offer protection to its possessor.
Xenophanes Lesher, James 2008
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Phrygians are seen reposing after a festival, bacchants rush in and the wild orgies begin afresh.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley
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He painted all sorts of subjects, but was seen at his best in mythological scenes with groups of drunken satyrs and bacchants, surrounded by a close-placed landscape.
A Text-Book of the History of Painting John Charles Van Dyke 1894
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The influence, direct and indirect, of these German philosophers reached far beyond the narrow circle of the bacchants or even the wandbearers of idealism.
The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894
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In their other religious festivals also, choruses of fauns and bacchants chaunted songs and held up individuals to public ridicule.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 Samuel James Arnold 1813
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