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adj. - Of or relating to or resembling a reveler at riotously drunken merrymaking.

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Usage examples (6)
  • The forces compensating this calamitous development personified themselves partly in the later Schelling, partly in Schopenhauer and Carus, while on the other hand that...
  • Following an extended barrage of arrack-scented kisses, during which each of her sumptuous bulges had been lovingly measured and stroked; during which his lingam had been...
  • I arrived late and only saw the end of the processions; far more carriages, wilder shouting, more madness, -- bacchantic, stormy, -- than last time.
  • But, beginning with the story of the barbarian invasions in the third volume, Professor Jones's interpretation took on a fury that was almost bacchantic.
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