Crossword clues for bacchic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bacchic \Bac"chic\, Bacchical \Bac"chic*al\, a. [L. Bacchicus, Gr. Bakchiko`s.] Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous, with intoxication; riotously drunken; -- used of revelrous gatherings.
Syn: bacchanalian, bacchanal, bibulous, carousing, drunken(prenominal), orgiastic, riotous [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] ||
Wiktionary
a. (alternative spelling of bacchic English)
WordNet
adj : used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" [syn: bacchanalian, bacchanal, carousing, orgiastic]
Usage examples of "bacchic".
Melbai had already warned me of the one most sacrosanct rule of the Bacchic societies: that no participant ever disclose to the uninvited what occurred inside the temple doors.
He laughed all the way to Misenum, carried in a flower-decked litter with Metrobius by his side and accompanied by his Bacchic revelers, all invited to stay in his villa as his guests for as long as they wanted.
And this was a Saturday morning, so the Bacchic temple was where those women spent their Friday nights.
Campanian woman had a vision in which the god instructed her to induct her own two adolescent sons, and the Bacchic societies have been conjuncti ever since.
I assumed were the Bacchic versions of invocation, homily, benediction and so on.
He and others of his status had reason enough to prevent her revealing them to be even attendants at the Bacchic rites.
For now we are about to witness and partake in a truly significant event that will embellish even further this holiest and most festive of Bacchic nights!
The shadow of the leaves, dappling her, gave her frock the strange look of a leopard skin, a Bacchic image, a maenad.
Hippolyte figuring in the bacchic dance in the midst of a chorus of joyous boon-companions, and thus proving to all eyes by his verve and his capers his complete cure?
In a way, it reminded Marcus of the Bacchic rites the Roman senate had banned a century before his birth.
But at their wildest, the Bacchic rituals were a temporary, constrained release from the real world.
I never understood how it was that he respected me, for he was quite drunk, and in a kind of Bacchic fury.
ULYSSES: Delighted with the Bacchic drink he goes To call his brother Cyclops--who inhabit A village upon Aetna not far off.
Surely he had followed in the Bacchic train of distant Arcady, and played on the reeds of myth by forgotten streams, and taught the childish satyrs the art of love?
Even such good harvest of the things that flee Earth offers her subjected, and they choose Rather of Bacchic Youth one beam to drink, And warm slow marrow with the sensual wink.