bacchantic

Variant of bacchant

noun pl. bacchants or bacchantes

  1. a priest or worshiper of Bacchus
  2. a drunken carouser

Origin: < L bacchans, prp. of bacchari, to celebrate the feast of Bacchus

adjective

  1. worshiping Bacchus
  2. given to carousing

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