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Bacchanalia   Listen
noun
Bacchanalia  n. pl.  
1.
(Myth.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
2.
Hence: A drunken feast; drunken revels; an orgy.





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"Bacchanalia" Quotes from Famous Books



... festival started the evening before. Men and women went out into the woods in search of a tree and brought it back to the village in the early morning. The night was spent in sexual excesses comparable to those of the Roman Bacchanalia. A procession was formed, garlands were added to the May-pole, which was set up in the village square. The Puritans referred to it as an idol, and they did not approve of the festivities. Until comparatively recent years there was a May-pole in one of the squares of London, and Samuel ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10
... all crimes, all forces were set in motion by a feverish yearning for immaterial pleasures, beauty, power, and immortality. The Renaissance has been called an intellectual bacchanalia, and when we examine the features of the bacchantes they become distorted like those of the suitors in Homer, who anticipated their fall; for this society, this Church, these cities and states—in fine, this culture in ...
— Lucretia Borgia - According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day • Ferdinand Gregorovius


Words linked to "Bacchanalia" :   fete, bacchanal, revel, drunken revelry, orgy, festival, riot, revelry, Dionysia


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