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bacchic

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1. bacchic - Adjective

2. bacchic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Alt. of Bacchical

Source: Webster's dictionary

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a night of bacchanalian revelry Source: Internet

carousing bands of drunken soldiers Source: Internet

orgiastic festivity Source: Internet

But more importantly, rock was able to generate an ancient energy, a kind of Bacchic sensibility that had to do with excess, spiritual danger, and sex. Source: Internet

Roman etymologists thought that the soldiers' chant of triumpe was a borrowing via Etruscan of the Greek thriambus (θρίαμβος), cried out by satyrs and other attendants in Dionysian and Bacchic processions. Source: Internet

The reformed, officially approved Bacchic cults would have borne little resemblance to the earlier crowded, ecstatic and uninhibited Bacchanalia. Source: Internet

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