Definition of Menads

1. menad [n] - See also: menad

Lexicographical Neighbors of Menads

menacers
menaces
menacing
menacingly
menacingness
menad
menadiol
menadiol diacetate
menadiol sodium diphosphate
menadione
menadione alkyltransferase
menadione reductase
menadione sodium bisulfite
menadiones
menads (current term)
menage
menage a trois
menaged
menagerie
menageries
menages
menaging
menagogue
menagogues
menagry
menaia
menaion
menaphthone
menaquinol oxidase

Literary usage of Menads

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The French Revolution: A History. In Three Volumes. by Thomas Carlyle (1837)
"THE menads. IF Voltaire once, in splenetic humour, asked his countrymen : " But you, ... menads."

2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Thou, this day, disowned of Heaven and Earth, art General of menads. Their inarticulate frenzy thou must, on the spur of the instant, render into articulate ..."

3. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"Thou, this day, disowned of Heaven and Earth, art General of menads. ... He persuades his menads, clamorous for arms and the Arsenal, that no arms are in ..."

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