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/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
- But in that typically unabashed and upfront Californian way - though she was actually born in Phoenix, Arizona - she refuses to be coy about the band's bacchanalian excesses.
- I resorted to telemarketing to pay for my bacchanalian lifestyle during the lean years of college.
- I had, somehow, got both lords and deans associated in my mind with infinite swillings of port wine, and bacchanalian orgies, and sat down at first, in much fear and trembling, lest I should be compelled to join, under penalties of salt-and-water; but Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
- The answer, of course, lies in a word unfamiliar to as many fitness enthusiasts as it is to the bacchanalian hedonist - moderation.
- The heart and soul of the movie is Alan, a shy Texan teetotaller who's confronted with a display of bacchanalian excess that would've impressed Caligula.
- It's a conceit that would ring false with David Threlfall's wild, bacchanalian Chatsworth patriarch but William H Macy's Frank is a more sensitive, caring soul, who uses his extended period of sobriety to connect with the kids. TV highlights 11/08/2011: The Culture Show At The Edinburgh Festival | Torchwood: Miracle Day | The Killing | The Forgotten Blitz | Little Box Of Horrors | Shameless US
- A country so rich in frescoes and carvings of bacchanalian festivities must know a thing or two about making wine.
- The thyrsus was a long staff, carried by Bacchus, and by the Satyrs and Bacchanalians engaged in the worship of the God of the grape. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
- In other days there were festal dances, and funeral dances, and military dances, and "mediatorial" dances, and bacchanalian dances. The Abominations of Modern Society
- Luckily enough, most of Scotland was spared shameful scenes of bacchanalian excess.