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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
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bacchic

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Adjective

HYPHEN

Bac=chic

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective bacchic has 1 sense

bacchic(s = adj.all) bacchanal, bacchanalian, carousing, orgiastic - used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

bacchic, a. [L. Bacchicus, Gr. Bakchiko`s.].

Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous, with intoxication; riotously drunken; -- used of revelrous gatherings. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

bacchic, adj. = BACCHANAL adj.

Etymology

L bacchicus f. Gk bakkhikos of Bacchus

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THESAURUS

bacchic

Dionysiac, amok, berserk, corybantic, desperate, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, like one possessed, mad, madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal, rabid, raging, ranting, raving, raving mad, running wild, stark-raving mad, uncontrollable, violent, wild

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