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Bacchant

noun
(pl. E. bacchants, L. bacchantes)
1.
Someone who engages in drinking bouts.  Synonyms: bacchanal, drunken reveler, drunken reveller.
2.
A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus.  Synonym: bacchanal.
3.
(classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus.



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"Bacchant" Quotes from Famous Books



... als ein toerichter Hund mit offenem Maul ohne Unterlass wagest. Du treuloser Bube und teuflischer Moench! Du deklarierter Mameluck and verdammter Zwiedarm, deren neun einen Pickharden gelten. Ich sage vornehmlich, dass du selbst der aller unverstaendigste Bacchant und zehneckichte Cornut und Bestia bist. Du meineidiger, treuloser und ehrenblosser Fleischboesewicht! Pfui dich nun, du sakrilegischer, der ausgelaufenen Moenche und Nonnen, der abfaelligen Pfaffen und aller Abtruennigen Hurenwirt! Ei, Doktor ...
— Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church • Friedrich Bente

... glittering wain, Nor yet the weeping sister train. But let the vine luxuriant roll Its blushing tendrils round the bowl, While many a rose-lipped bacchant maid Is culling clusters in their shade. Let sylvan gods, in antic shapes, Wildly press the gushing grapes, And flights of Loves, in wanton play, Wing through the air their winding way; While Venus, from her arbor green, Looks laughing at the joyous scene, And young ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al



Words linked to "Bacchant" :   juicer, drunken reveller, drinker, imbiber, drunken reveler, lover, Greek mythology, bacchanal, devotee, buff, toper, fan, bacchantic, Roman mythology, votary



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