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for bacchanalian
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Bacchanalian \Bac`cha*na"li*an\ (b[a^]k`k[.a]*n[=a]"l[i^]*an;
106), a.
Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or
given to reveling and drunkenness.
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Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. --Cowper.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Bacchanalian \Bac`cha*na"li*an\, n.
A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
bacchanalian
adj 1: used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of
bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken
soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" [syn: bacchanalian,
bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic]
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