Usage examples (18)

• A bacchic emulation reigned, which threatened to end in scenes bordering upon a debauch.
• Discovered, Pentheus is torn to pieces by his mother who, in bacchic frenzy, mistakes him for a lion.
• Surely this is a very obvious image or symbol of the beautiful, the ideal, aspect of bacchic elation and revelry.
• He lay upon his bed in the same position in which he had first been placed, and was sleeping that heavy, painful sleep which serves as an expiation for bacchic excesses.