College-admissions deans and potential employers browse bacchanalian footage.
From the economist.com
They quiver in the breeze, gyrate really, and it's all rather bacchanalian.
From the washingtonpost.com
A grand bacchanalian bash based on a novel by the late Nikos Kazantzakis.
From the time.com
The Brazilian bacchanalian festival of Carnival is just the kind of place to find them.
From the washingtonpost.com
This is positively bacchanalian, with feeders for seeds, peanuts, fat snacks and even suet.
From the independent.co.uk
Tomorrow we're invading Philly for an evening of networking, fun, and bacchanalian pleasure.
From the techcrunch.com
Behind this bacchanalian bliss, however, a disaster is unfolding.
From the newscientist.com
Next Tuesday we're invading Philly for an evening of networking, fun, and bacchanalian pleasure.
From the techcrunch.com
My perfect day out in the UK would have to encompass the mystical, the astronomical, and the bacchanalian.
From the guardian.co.uk
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Used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity"
The bacchanalia were wild and mystic festivals of the Greek and Roman god Bacchus (or Dionysus). It has since come to describe any form of drunken revelry.
A bacchanal; a drunken reveler; Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness
(bacchanalianism) The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry