2. Adjective. (context: by extension of a woman) Excessively wild or emotional. ¹
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Definition of Maenadic
1. maenad [adj] - See also: maenad
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maenadic
Literary usage of Maenadic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... and to grow calm from the maenadic muse that seized and transported him into
another world. But the new form of his dimorphic personality can not be ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... as of old Through Athens glided menad-like. Lowell, The Cathedral. Hence—2.
Any woman under the influence of unnatural excitement or frenzy. maenadic, ..."
3. Rosinante to the Road Again by John Dos Passos (1922)
"... maenadic bands of stenographers, and a music of typewriters deliriously
clicking, they go about the world, catching all the butterflies, ..."
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