Crossword clues for saturnalian
saturnalian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saturnalian \Sat`ur*na"li*an\, a.
Of or pertaining to the Saturnalia.
Of unrestrained and intemperate jollity; riotously merry; dissolute. ``Saturnalian amusement.''
--Burke.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of Saturnalian English)
Usage examples of "saturnalian".
Napoleon was scrupulously respected through the whole of this Saturnalian festivity.
They were to be found, I suspect, in Saturnalian orgies at one end of the scale and in mystical experience at the other.
Wexford, 39 chancing to call in and, on account of his diet, sampling the orange juice himself, had located the source of this almost Saturnalian jollity and, simultaneously, the joker.
Chelsea was comparatively near to the heart of things, and I had heard that one might find there artistic people whose hand-to-mouth, Saturnalian existence was redolent of that exquisite gaiety which so attracted my own casual temperament.
At the end of December, as a Saturnalian treat, Rufrius Vitalis turned up looking prosperous with a hide whip pushed through a huge brown belt, to see if I had discovered enough to let me be pulled out.
His wife and children had retreated to Londinium after the Saturnalian holiday, but I could imagine what life was like in summer when they were here.
The Saturnalian view that satire allows anti-social behavior and makes the shameful laughable conflicts with the idea that satire, like law, is an agent of social control.
The inversions of the Saturnalian occasion are in turn inverted by the performing satirist, who restores slave, fool, and beggars to their original nature.
People pissed themselves laughing, and the Saturnalian laying low of a high figure provided maximum entertainment value on an otherwise rainy and miserable week.