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Bacchic /ˈbakɪk /adjective1Relating to Bacchus or the worship of Bacchus: I adopted its religion and celebrated the Bacchic rites...- As in Roman art in general, Bacchic scenes and imagery are very common in these mosaics.
- There were Dionysia in Greece and Bacchic festivals in Rome and, allegedly, in more rural areas, traces of the Greek ones survive to this day.
- Their research revealed that more than a few Bacchic and Dionysian cults survived the fall of Rome and the Rise of Christianity, and some still exist to this day.
1.1Drunken and debauched: in the evening, this bar becomes positively Bacchic...- But in spirit these orderly scenes barely nod to the bacchic mayhem that propelled the Jazz Age towards the Wall Street Crash.
- Kids studying abroad have earned a dubious reputation for public drunkenness and vulgar behavior to the extent that university websites warn students against the dangers of Bacchic excess.
- Intermittently, she seems self-satisfied, demure, and - most tellingly considering the truly Bacchic quantities of red wine she's putting away - drunk.
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