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UK
/bˌækɐnˈeɪliən/
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ADJECTIVE
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used of riotously drunken merrymaking
orgiastic festivity
a night of bacchanalian revelry
carousing bands of drunken soldiers
How To Use bacchanalian In A Sentence
- A bottle was opened, and the minister pledged the bride, and the bridesmaids simpered and tasted, and I made a speech with airy bacchanalianism, glass in hand. The Wrecker
- 20-25 is really the only time you'll have for Bacchanalian orgiastic sex of the highest caliber.
- There is nothing wild or bacchanalian to report.
- _Asti spumante_ poured out for him, instead of milk, by these bacchanalian Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House
- a night of bacchanalian revelry
- I remember being 17 and being caught by my father puking up in the loo after a particularly bacchanalian dinner party.
- Not that my life has been a wild bacchanalian phantasmagoria of debauchery and dissipation, but I've had my moments.
- Despite the presence of bacchantes and the references to wine, the bacchanalian aspect of the scene is greatly subdued, reducing the feeling of revelry and recklessness.
- Their pale sun-gilt green set a glow of bacchanalianism about the weather-worn heads of the old orchard giants. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
- But in appearance he still ruled, dozing oft-times at the board, a bacchanalian ruin, yet in all seeming the ruler of the feast. The Wit of Porportuk