Bacchanalian
See also: bacchanalian
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBacchanalia + -an
Adjective
editBacchanalian (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
- 1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error:
- Even Bacchanalian madness has its charms.
Translations
editrelating to reveling
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Noun
editBacchanalian (plural Bacchanalians)
- A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
- 1894, George du Maurier, “Part Third”, in Trilby: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 165:
- With the help of a sleepy waiter, Little Billee got the bacchanalian into his room and lit his candle for him, and, disengaging himself from his maudlin embraces, left him to wallow in solitude.