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mænad|ˈmiːnæd|
[ad. L. Mænad-, Mænās, a. Gr. Μαιναδ-, Μαινάς, f. µαίν-εσθαι to rave.]
A Bacchante.
1579E. K. Gloss. Spenser's Sheph. Cal. Oct. 111 The Mænades (that is Bacchus franticke priestes). c1620T. Robinson Mary Magdalene 795 Like to y⊇ Menades yt Euhœ crie. 1638–48G. Daniel Eclog iii. 153 The Women..Like yauling Mænades, their Ioo's send To the full-fraught, lest drinking there should end. 1820Shelley Ode Liberty vii, Like a wolf-cub from a Cadmæan Mænad, She drew the milk of greatness. 1882Athenæum 7 Jan. 22/2 Another [nymph], furious as a mænad, is about to whirl on high the headless body of a kid.
Hence mæˈnadic a., characteristic of a Mænad; resembling a Mænad, infuriated.
1830Carlyle Misc. (1872) III. 2 Phallophori and Mænadic women. 1830Fraser's Mag. I. 587 There is a clapping of hands, and shouts of Mænadic glorification.
Add: ˈmaenadism n., wild or frenzied behaviour.
1909Webster, Mænadism. 1961A. Huxley Let. 29 Oct. (1969) 925 Maenadism, the Dionysian orgies,..represent methods for harmlessly expressing the dangerous feelings engendered by instinctive drives. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 29 July 924/4 The Greek mystery cult of Bacchus, which featured a considerable streak of maenadism,..spread rapidly through the peninsula. 1993W. Weaver tr. U. Eco's Misreadings 78 As if, in the grip of a kind of maenadism, they viewed the path to the sea as their only escape. |