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Definition of Bacchian
1. jovial or drunken [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bacchian
Literary usage of Bacchian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Art and Its Remains: Or, A Manual of the Archaeology of Art by Karl Otfried Müller, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1852)
"Köhler Descr. d'un camée du Cab. Farnese 1810. Omophagia, a bacchian ...
The richest collection of bacchian utensils and masks is furnished by the so-called ..."
2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... one bacchian. degree. These Hands are like foure sharpe Mountaines, ...
The biggest of all these, is bacchian. and sowre, Oranges, Limons, and Honey, ..."
3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"The biggest of all these, is bacchian. Departing from the Hand of Mare, and
directing their course toward the South-west, with onely six and fortie men in ..."
4. Between East and West: The Moluccas and the Traffic in Spices Up to the by R. A. Donkin (2003)
"... 16 Australia, 15, 144 Austrasia, 116 Avignon, 123, 126, 127 bacchian, ...
bacchian), 4, 43 (198), 182 (176) Bayang, 81 (163) Beirut, 125, 129, ..."
5. Handbook of Archæology: Egyptian--Greek--Etruscan--Roman by Hodder Michael Westropp (1878)
"... a peculiar blending of happy intoxication, with a dark and undefined longing,
in which the bacchian frame of feeling appears in its most refined form. ..."
6. Handbook of Archaeology: Egyptian-Greek-Etruscan-Roman by Hodder Michael Westropp (1878)
"The mitra around the forehead, and the vine or ivy crown throwing its shade from
above, produce a very advantageous effect in the bacchian expression; ..."
7. The doctrine of the Deluge; vindicating the scriptural account from the by Leveson Venables V. Harcourt (1838)
"They address themselves to the double-headed light of fire with which the rock
of Parnassus shone upon the bacchian heights of ..."
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