“Bacchanalia”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

Bacchanalia

释义

‖ Bacchanalia, n. pl.|bækəˈneɪlɪə|
[L., neut. pl. of bacchānālis: see prec. Formerly occas. treated in Eng. as sing., with pl. -as.]
1. The festival held in honour of Bacchus.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Tacitus gives an elegant description of the Bacchanalia.1863Haydn Dict. Dates s.v., In Rome the Bacchanalia were suppressed, 186 b.c.
2. Drunken revelry; a tippling bout, an orgy.
1633Marmyon Fine Comp. ii. iv, Drinks sack, and keeps his Bacchanalias.1684Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 210 The squibs and bacchanalia of the Lord Mayor's Show.1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur 283 The morning after the bacchanalia.
†3. A drinking-song: cf. Bacchanal n. 5. Obs.
1651Evelyn Char. Eng. Wks. (1805) 158 In taverns, chanting their dithrambicks and bestial bacchanalias.
†4. = Bacchanal 6. Obs.
1662J. Bargrave Pope Alex. VII (1867) 117 A bachanalia piece, dugg out of the temple of Bacchus.

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