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bacchic

ADJECTIVE
  1. used of riotously drunken merrymaking
    orgiastic festivity
    a night of bacchanalian revelry
    carousing bands of drunken soldiers

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  • It is certainly difficult to play, not only for the pianist and orchestra – who must continually wrestle with dense, muddy scoring – but also the piano itself, which barely survived the final cadenza, the muscular Denis Matsuev's assault on the instrument egged on by Bacchic interjections from woodwind and brass. Matsuev/LSO/Gergiev
  • Any dolt can see the connection between the mother-smothered Amis and the later unstoppable tit-man who was also a slave to Bacchic overindulgence. One Fraught Englishman
  • The dithyramb (_dithyrambos_ or Bacchic step, [- '' -]) brought a new step to the dance and therefore a new element into poetry, for all dances were choric, that is to say they were sung as well as danced. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
  • To be sure, Pentheus hubristic decrees forbidding the Bacchic rites to take place in his city are transgressions of the natural order, rupturae on a higher level. Archive 2009-06-01
  • A day Bacchic, through doorway of a residence , wine emerges, spit to that doorway continuously.
  • I never understood how it was that he respected me, for he was quite drunk, and in a kind of Bacchic fury. The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • a fountain crowned by a Bacchic Kantharos, and wrote on its epistyle a brilliant epigram, inviting the faithful to purify themselves bodily and spiritually, before presenting themselves to the apostle within. Pagan and Christian Rome
  • O Thebes, nurse of Semele! crown thyself with ivy; burst forth, burst forth with blossoms fair of green convolvulus, and with the boughs of oak and pine join in the Bacchic revelry; dor; - thy coat of dappled fawn-skin, decking it with tufts of silvered hair; with reverent hand the sportive wand now wield. The Bacchantes
  • For just as those trained in the canons of the lyre declare the sesquialter proportion produces the symphony diapente, the double proportion the diapason, the sesquiterte the diatessaron, the slowest of all, so the specialists in Bacchic harmonies have detected three accords between wine and water — Diapente, Essays and Miscellanies
  • It is a product of classical studies of the ancient Phrygian terrorist cult of Satan-Dionysos, the model for the Roman Bacchic cults of similar characteristics. Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation
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