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Definition of Dionysian
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or worshipping Dionysus.
Definition of Dionysian
1. a. Relating to Dionysius, a monk of the 6th century; as, the Dionysian, or Christian, era.
Definition of Dionysian
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to ''Dionysius''. ¹
2. Adjective. wild, irrational, and undisciplined ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dionysian
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dionysian
Literary usage of Dionysian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Oxford Reformers John Colet, Erasmus, and Thomas More: Being a History by Frederic Seebohm (1896)
"COLET STUDIES AFRESH THE PSEUDO-Dionysian WRITINGS (1497 ? ... study of the
Pseudo- Dionysian writings : writing from memory an abstract of the 'Celestial' ..."
2. Ancient Art and Its Remains: Or, A Manual of the Archaeology of Art by Karl Otfried Müller, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1852)
"GM 334., &c. Temple 335. В. THE OTHER DEITIES. 1. Dionysian CYCLE. \. ...
The cycle of Dionysian forms, which constitute as it were a peculiar and distinct ..."
3. The Oxford Reformers: John Colet, Erasmus, and Thomas More by Frederic Seebohm (1869)
"... Pseudo- Dionysian writings : writing from memory an abstract of the ...
treatises of his own,based throughout upon Dionysian speculations.2 1 The letter ..."
4. The measures, weights, & moneys of all nations; and an analysis of the by Wesley Stoker B. Woolhouse (1881)
"If there be no remainder, the Indiction is 15. Or divide the sum by 30, and
diminish the remainder by 15 if greater than 15. Dionysian ..."
5. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander (1854)
"This influence was promoted by the theology of the pseudo-Dionysian writings (which
were ... Dionysian ..."
6. A New and Complete System of Arithmetick: Composed for the Use of the by Nicolas Pike, Chester Dewey (1822)
"Required the year of the Dionysian Period for the year 1786 ? To 1786 Add 457
532)2243(4 2128 ... Dionysian ..."
7. History of the Church of England: From the Abolition of the Roman Jurisdiction by Richard Watson Dixon (1885)
"The Dionysian collection became the foundation of the ecclesiastical legislation
of Charles : and so, in reality, of the dominant canon law of the West. ..."
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