Dionysiacadj.n.
/dʌɪəˈnɪsɪak/ A. adj.
Of or pertaining to Dionysus or Bacchus, or to his worship.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > relating to Bacchus
Bacchanal1550
Dionysiana1610
honey-lipped1647
Bacchic1669
Dionysic1831
Dionysiac1844
Dionysiacal1858
1844 C. Beck & C. C. Felton tr. E. Munk Metres Greeks & Romans 149 Dionysiac and erotic poems.
1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 236 The new Dionysiac revel.
1865 G. Grote Plato II. xxiii. 162 The Orphic or Dionysiac religious mysteries.
1871 R. Browning Balaustion 3 Ours the great Dionusiac theatre, And tragic triad of immortal fames.
B. n. plural.
The Dionysiac festivals or Dionysia, celebrated periodically in ancient Greece.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > other seasons and feasts > classical > [noun] > Dionysus
Dionysiac1827
1827–38 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (1867) 154 At Athens, Homer, the Dionysiacs and Pericles, by their united influence, fostered them into dramatists.
Derivatives
Dionyˈsiacal adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > relating to Bacchus
Bacchanal1550
Dionysiana1610
honey-lipped1647
Bacchic1669
Dionysic1831
Dionysiac1844
Dionysiacal1858
1858 T. J. Hogg Life Shelley II. xi. 373 The goat is a Dionysiacal quadruped, habitually given to scale Parnassus.
Dionyˈsiacally adv.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adverb] > in the manner of Bacchus
Dionysiacally1816
1816 T. Taylor in Pamphleteer 8 57 The mundane intellect..is Bacchus..the soul is particularly distributed into generation Dionysiacally.
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