Bacchantic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Bacchantic is an adjective meaning Bacchanalian; drunken or frenzied and unrestrained; orgiastic.
Meaning
Bacchanalian; drunken or frenzied and unrestrained; orgiastic.
More Meanings
- Pertaining to the clergy or worship of Bacchus.
Example Sentences
The orchestra played bacchantic music, and in bacchantic madness the dancers rushed by each other.
There is a passage from chaos to cosmos marked by the "bacchantic" riots of Nature and even ourselves.
Yet nature is Spirit only in its otherness— self-alienated Spriit: "A bacchantic god innocent of restraint and reflection has merely been let loose into it " ( E §247z ) .
His friend Ted dancing the can-can trouserless with his shirt-tails flying, is an absurd equivalent to the bacchantic worshippers, who were supposed to don female dress during the rite.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bacchanal, anacreontic, bacchant, dionysian, debaucherous, lecherous.
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