Bacchanalia

created by Webster 1913

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:01:14

Bac`cha*na"li*a (?), n. pl. [L. Bacchanal a place devoted to Bacchus; in the pl. Bacchanalia a feast of Bacchus, fr. Bacchus the god of wine, Gr. ]

1. Myth.

A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.

Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler.

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