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单词 dionysian
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Dionysianadj.

/dʌɪəˈnɪsɪən/
Etymology: < Latin Dionȳsius of or pertaining to Dionysus or Bacchus; also as noun, a personal name + -an suffix.
1. Of or pertaining to Dionysus or Bacchus, or the Dionysia or festivals held in honour of Dionysus; = Dionysiac adj.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > relating to Bacchus
Bacchanal1550
Dionysiana1610
honey-lipped1647
Bacchic1669
Dionysic1831
Dionysiac1844
Dionysiacal1858
society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [adjective]
merryeOE
jovial1607
Dionysiana1610
Anacreontic1640
jovialissime1652
festivous1654
convival1658
convivial1669
a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters (1636) 13 The Seas after the Dionysian feasts will be more smooth.
1820 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. p. xxiii The Dionysian festivals..were the great carnivals of antiquity.
2. Pertaining to or characteristic of the Elder or Younger Dionysius, tyrants of Syracuse, notorious for cruelty.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective]
grimlyc893
retheeOE
grim971
bitterOE
bremec1175
grillc1175
grimfula1240
cruel1297
sturdy1297
fiercea1300
fellc1300
boistousa1387
felonousc1386
savagea1393
bestiala1398
bremelya1400
felona1400
hetera1400
cursedc1400
wicked14..
vengeablec1430
wolvishc1430
unnatural?1473
inhuman1481
brutisha1513
cruent1524
felonish1530
mannish1530
abominate1531
lionish1549
boarish?1550
truculent?c1550
unhumanc1550
lion-like1556
beastly1558
orped1567
raw?1573
tigerish?1573
unmanlike1579
boisterous1581
savaged1583
tiger-like1587
yond1590
truculental1593
savage wild1595
tigerous1597
inhumane1598
Neronian1598
immane1599
Phalarical1602
ungentle1603
feral1604
savagious1605
fierceful1607
Dionysian1608
wolvy1611
Hunnish1625
lionly1631
tigerly1633
savage-hearted1639
brutal1641
feroce1641
ferocious1646
asperous1650
ferousa1652
wolfish1674
tiger1763
savage-fierce1770
Tartar1809
Tartarly1821
Neroic1851
tigery1859
Neronic1864
unmannish1867
inhumanitarian1947
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [adjective]
wrothc893
retheeOE
hateleOE
grim971
hardOE
cruel1297
despitousc1374
savagea1393
fadea1400
hetera1400
keen?c1425
vengeablec1430
despiteful1488
unmanfula1500
despiteous?1510
cruent1524
felonish1530
Herodian1581
felly1583
savaged1583
Neronian1598
savagious1605
Dionysian1608
black-blooded1771
atrocious1772
Neroic1851
Neronic1864
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 66 Who..would not..hate..those Dionysian Tyrants in Sicilia..?
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 688/2 He..punished with Dionysian severity the slightest want of respect.
3. Pertaining to the abbot Dionysius the Little, who lived in the sixth century, and is said to have first practised the method of dating events from the birth of Christ of which he fixed the accepted date. Dionysian period, a period of 532 Julian years, after which the changes of the moon recur on the same days of the year; said to have been introduced by Dionysius for calculating the date of Easter.
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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years > in different cultures or calendars
Julian period1592
saros1613
octaeteris1645
lustrala1656
biennium1699
Dionysian period1728
Victorian cycle1728
Sothic cycle or period1828
katun1902
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Period Victorian Period, an Interval of 532 Julian Years... Some ascribe this Period to Dionysius exiguus; and hence call it the Dionysian Period.
1769 J. Horsefall in Philos. Trans. 1768 (Royal Soc.) 58 102 Encreased by three dionysian periods, or multiples of 28 and 19.
1861 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. vi. iv. 260 The Dionysian Period is obtained by a combination of the Lunar and Solar cycles.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. i. ii. 14 Our received Dionysian era.
4. Of Dionysius the Areopagite (Acts xvii. 34); esp. applied to early ecclesiastical works attributed to him.
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1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 264/1 Pearson places the composition of the Dionysian writings before 340.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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