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Definition of Bacchantic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler.
Definition of Bacchantic
1. a. Bacchanalian.
Definition of Bacchantic
1. Adjective. Bacchanalian ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bacchantic
Literary usage of Bacchantic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1858)
"The Dance of St. John was almost a counterpart of the ' bacchantic fury,' and
was probably induced by similar causes. The terrible pestilence, known in ..."
2. ...Sophocles Antigone by Sophocles, Gustav Wolff (1884)
"But it seems preferable to take it literally of the stars, which by a poetical
fancy are said to move in a bacchantic chorus. So the Schol. also interprets, ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"She was sewing steadily; and in her black dress and white turban was hardly to
be recognized as the bacchantic Dulcie of the night before. ..."
4. Etude pratique du paludisme et des parasites du sang by John William Watson Stephens, John Addington Symonds, Samuel Rickard Christophers (1909)
"... of Correggio was more sensuous than that of Raphael; his intellectual faculties
were less developed ; his rapture was more tumultuous and bacchantic. ..."
5. A History of German Literature by John George Robertson (1902)
"A bacchantic passion for Greece and a deep conviction of the oneness of God and
nature, formed the two poles of ..."
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