The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dionysiac
Dionysiac \Di`o*ny"si*ac\, a. Of or pertaining to Dionysus or to the Dionysia; Bacchic; as, a Dionysiac festival; the Dionysiac theater at Athens.
Wiktionary
dionysiac
a. wild and ecstatic
Usage examples of "dionysiac".
She had been Agave, she had torn Pentheus and, in a metaphysical completion of the Dionysiac rite, she had devoured him.
Between him and Debussy there is the difference between the apollonian and the dionysiac, between the smooth, level, contained, perfect, and the darker, more turbulent, passionate, and instinctive.
Edgar triumphant over Edmund, the evil daughters dead, and Lear and Cordelia about to be rescued, the Apollonian form of tragedy has seemed on the verge of enclosing the Dionysiac turmoil.