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maenad


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Maenad  \M[ae]"nad\,  n.  [L.  Maenas,  -adis,  Gr  ?,  ?,  fr  ?  to 
  rave.] 
  1.  A  Bacchante;  a  priestess  or  votary  of  Bacchus. 
 
  2.  A  frantic  or  frenzied  woman. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  maenad 
  n  1:  an  unnaturally  frenzied  or  distraught  woman 
  2:  (Greek  mythology)  a  woman  participant  in  the  orgiastic  rites 
  of  Dionysus 




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