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English Dictionary: Bacchanalian by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bacchanalian
adj
  1. used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity"
    Synonym(s): bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bacchanalian \Bac`cha*na"li*an\, a.
      Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or
      given to reveling and drunkenness.
  
               Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. --Cowper.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bacchanalian \Bac`cha*na"li*an\, n.
      A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
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