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Bacchic

adjective
1.
Used of riotously drunken merrymaking.  Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, carousing, orgiastic.  "Carousing bands of drunken soldiers" , "Orgiastic festivity"





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"Bacchic" Quotes from Famous Books



... ale-stakes projecting or extending over the King's highway more than seven feet in length, at the utmost, should be fined forty pence, and compelled to remove the sign. Here is the origin, too, of the proverb, "good wine needs no bush." In the later development of the inn the signs lost their Bacchic character and became most elaborate, often being ...
— Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke


Words linked to "Bacchic" :   drunk, intoxicated, orgiastic, bacchanal, carousing, bacchanalian, inebriated


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