Bacchanalian
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See also: bacchanalian
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Bacchanalia + -an
Adjective[edit]
Bacchanalian (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
- 1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error:
- Even Bacchanalian madness has its charms.
Translations[edit]
relating to reveling
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Noun[edit]
Bacchanalian (plural Bacchanalians)
- A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
- 1894, George du Maurier, “Part Third”, in Trilby: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 165:
- With the help of a sleepy waiter, Little Billee got the bacchanalian into his room and lit his candle for him, and, disengaging himself from his maudlin embraces, left him to wallow in solitude.