bacchant
101toper — noun a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) • Syn: ↑drinker, ↑imbiber, ↑juicer • Ant: ↑nondrinker (for: ↑drinker) • Derivationally related form …
102bac|cha|na|li|an — «BAK uh NAY lee uhn, NAYL yuhn», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. having to do with the Bacchanalia. 2. drunken and wildly merry; bacchantic; bacchic. –n. a drunken reveler; bacchant …
103bac|chan|te — «buh KAN tee, buh KANT, BAK uhnt», noun. a priestess or woman worshiper of Bacchus; maenad. ╂[< French bacchante, learned borrowing from Latin bacchāns, antis bacchant] …
104Bacchation — † Baˈcchation Obs. 0 [ad. L. bacchātiōn em, n. of action f. bacchāri: see Bacchant and tion.] ‘Riot, drunkenness.’ Blount Glossogr. 1656 …
