Definitions for bacchic

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

Bac•chusˈbæk əs(n.)

  1. Category: Mythology

    Ref: Dionysus .

Origin of Bacchus:

< L < Gk

Bac′chic(adj.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic(adj)

    used of riotously drunken merrymaking

    "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity"

Wiktionary

  1. bacchic(Adjective)

    Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous, with intoxication.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bacchic(adj)

    alt. of Bacchical


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