What does "bacchanalian" mean?
Bacchanalian: Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness. Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. Cowper.
Additional senses
- 2.A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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