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3 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: bacchanalian adj : used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" [syn: {bacchanal}, {bacchic}, {carousing}, {orgiastic}]
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