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- adjective Greek mythology Of, or pertaining to the
maenad - adjective by extension, of a woman Excessively
wild oremotional .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was lying tightly restrained on his back while some maenadic space-sprite executed a victory dance on his chest.
Pawns and Symbols Majliss Larson 2000
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Lynch, a torch in her hand, her hair in maenadic dishevelment, leading on a mob to set fire to a town.
The Dust Flower Basil King 1893
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The prim, obliterated, polite surface of life, and the broad, bawdy and orgiastic -- or maenadic -- foundations, form a spectacle to which no habit reconciles me.
Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876
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When he and his brothers arrived at Heathrow in 1972 they were set upon by maenadic teenyboppers, who tore clumps of hair from Jermaine's scalp, robbed Michael of a shoe and almost choked him by tugging the opposite ends of his scarf.)
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