Bacchanal meaning

Adjective: bacchanal

Pronunciation:(,ba-ku’nal)

Bacchanal meaning:

• Used of riotously drunken merrymaking

Synonyms: bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic
Noun: bacchanal

Pronunciation:(,ba-ku’nal)

Bacchanal meaning:

• Someone who engages in drinking bouts

Synonyms: drunken reveler, drunken reveller, bacchant

• A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus

Synonyms: bacchant

• A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

Synonyms: orgy, debauch, debauchery, Saturnalia, riot, bacchanalia, drunken revelry

Derived forms: bacchanals
Quotations:

1. Suzanne Finnamore – The abandonment came, and now this shabby bacchanal.
2. Aldous Huxley – The Men of Faith will play the cup-bearers at this lifelong bacchanal, filling and ever filling again with the warm liquor that the Intelligences, in sad and sober privacy behind the scenes, will brew for the intoxication of their subjects.
3. David Rakoff – Maybe there is some solace to be derived in that: bacchanal or funeral, after enough time, the detritus looks the same.
4. Clarice Lispector – But I also know of yet another life. I know and want it and devour it ferociously. It’s a life of magical violence. It’s mysterious and bewitching. In it snakes entwine while the stars tremble. Drops of water drip in the phosphorescent darkness of the cave. In that dark the flowers intertwine in a humid fairy garden. And I am the sorceress of that silent bacchanal. I feel defeated by my own corruptibility. And I see that I am intrinsically bad. It’s only out of pure kindness that I am good. Defeated by myself. Who lead me along the paths of the salamander, the spirit who rules the fire and lives within it. And I give myself as an offering to the dead. I weave spells on the solstice, spectre of an exorcised dragon.
5. Michael Sims – So what can we generalize about Victorian vampires? They are already dead, yet not exactly dead, and clammy-handed. They can be magnetically repelled by crucifixes and they don’t show up in mirrors. No one is safe; vampires prey upon strangers, family, and lovers. Unlike zombies, vampires are individualists, seldom traveling in packs and never en masse. Many suffer from mortuary halitosis despite our reasonable expectation that they would no longer breathe. But our vampires herein also differ in interesting ways. Some fear sunlight; others do not. Many are bound by a supernatural edict that forbids them to enter a home without some kind of invitation, no matter how innocently mistaken. Dracula, for example, greets Jonathan Harker with this creepy exclamation that underlines another recurring theme, the betrayal of innocence (and also explains why I chose Stoker’s story “Dracula’s Guest” as the title of this anthology): “Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will.” Yet other vampires seem immune to this hospitality prohibition. One common bit of folklore was that you ought never to refer to a suspected vampire by name, yet in some tales people do so without consequence. Contrary to their later presentation in movies and television, not all Victorian vampires are charming or handsome or beautiful. Some are gruesome. Some are fiends wallowing in satanic bacchanal and others merely contagious victims of fate, à la Typhoid Mary. A few, in fact, are almost sympathetic figures, like the hero of a Greek epic who suffers the anger of the gods. Curious bits of other similar folklore pop up in scattered places. Vampires in many cultures, for example, are said to be allergic to garlic. Over the centuries, this aromatic herb has become associated with sorcerers and even with the devil himself. It protected Odysseus from Circe’s spells. In Islamic folklore, garlic springs up from Satan’s first step outside the Garden of Eden and onion from his second. Garlic has become as important in vampire defense as it is in Italian cooking. If, after refilling your necklace sachet and outlining your window frames, you have some left over, you can even use garlic to guard your pets or livestock—although animals luxuriate in soullessness and thus appeal less to the undead. The vampire story as we know it was born in the early nineteenth century. As
6. Tiphanie Yanique – Yes, we believe in the beach. We have always believed in the beach. Beaches are places of baptisms and funerals. Of bacchanal but also of solitude. But we did not consider the sea itself,

Sample sentences:

1. Tell me, as a pagan, who do you worship?”Worship?”That’s right. I imagine you must have a pretty wide open field. So to whom do you set up your household altar? To whom do you bow down? To whom do you pray to at dawn and at dusk?”The female principle. It’s an empowerment thing. You know.”Indeed. And this female principle of yours. Does she have a name?”She’s the goddess within us all. She doesn’t need a name.”Ah,’ said Wednesday, with a wide monkey grin, ‘so do you hold mighty bacchanals in her honour? Do you drink blood wine under the full moon, while scarlet candles burn in silver candle holders? Do you step naked into the sea foam, chanting ecstactically to your nameless goddess while the waves lick at your legs, lapping your thighs like the tongues of a thousand leopards?
2. Hassan can, at a hand clap, call a vassal at hand and ask that all staff plan a bacchanal – a gala ball that has what pagan charm small galas lack. Hassan claps, and (tah-dah) an Arab lass at a swank spa can draw a man’s bath and wash a man’s back, as Arab lads fawn and hang, athwart an altar, amaranth garlands as fragrant as attar – a balm that calms all angst. A dwarf can flap a palm branch that fans a fat maharajah.
3. Hang care!’ exclaimed he. ‘This is, a delicious evening; the wine has a finer relish here than in the house, and the song is more exciting and melodious under the tranquil sky than in the close room, where sound is stifled. Come, let us have a bacchanalian chant – let us, with old Sir Toby, make the welkin dance, and rouse the night-owl with a catch. I am right merry. Pass the bottle, and tune your voices – a catch, a catch! The lights will be here anon.'(“The Haunted House Of Paddington”)
4. But death, even as grisly a death as his, could not lay Blackbeard to rest. Reports have put his restless spirit on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, scene of some of his rowdiest bacchanals where his favorite anchorage is known to this day as Teach’s Hole.
5. Amidst all the bacchanal and confusion in your life, find something to be grateful for, even if it is the air that you breath and trust me, this will transform you in some small way. Gratitude is really really the great multiplier.
6. 2007 Wall Street Journal profile also described how, at one of Schwarzman’s five houses, an “11,000-square-foot home in Palm Beach, Fla., he complained to Jean-Pierre Zeugin, his executive chef and estate manager, that an employee wasn’t wearing the proper black shoes with his uniform. He found the squeak of the rubber soles distracting.” His own mother told the paper that money is “what drives him. Money is the measuring stick.” Schwarzman’s most serious self-inflicted wound, though, was the $3 million sixtieth birthday party he threw for himself in February 2007, at which he paid pop stars Rod Stewart and Patti LaBelle to serenade him. The media sensation stirred by the billionaire bacchanal led directly to congressional calls to close the carried-interest loophole.
7. For those lacking the funds, the time or the fake-fur leggings to attend the Electric Daisy Carnival, an annual electronic dance music bacchanal in Las Vegas, the new infomercial-style documentary “Under the Electric Sky,” produced by the event’s organizers, might suffice.
8. The Rochester, N.Y.-based company presented the West Coast premiere of “Geoffrey Holder Life Fete Bacchanal,” a tribute to the late dancer and choreographer who won a Tony Award for his direction.
9. The island’s Carnival stays true to its 18th-century roots: a European pre-Lent bacchanal, co-opted by slaves mimicking their colonizers and infusing the festivities with West African folklore.
10. Las Vegas’ Bacchanal Buffet welcomed its one millionth guest during Labor Day, quite an accomplishment for a buffet that won’t celebrate its first birthday until next week.
11. Many revelers described the scene along Vila Madalena’s main drag as “Carnival in Salvador,” as packed, wild and carnal as Brazil’s rowdiest street bacchanal.
12. Premiering three years ago, when the TV-renaissance bacchanal had reached fever pitch, “The Newsroom” was greeted with giddy anticipation — Aaron Sorkin on HBO!
13. At the Joyce, the choreographer featured his tribute piece “Geoffrey Holder Life Fete Bacchanal,” which he has tweaked since its premiere in August.
14. Great American Beer Festival tickets sold out in minutes Wednesday, marking the countdown to the nation’s biggest beer bacchanal Oct. -9 in Denver.
15. Skrillex’s music can feel like a post-apocalyptic EDM bacchanal.
16. And the great bacchanal that followed upon his act the youth neither saw nor heard.
17. The bacchanal may have dreaded November, not the dryad.
18. For instance, we might be Bacchanals in pink fleshing and vine leaves.
19. What had been a joyous bacchanal had degenerated into a horrid saturnalia.
20. A plaster cast of young Bacchanals leading the goat.
21. The figure of a drunk, unchastened, zigzagging humorously down the pavement like some nocturnal clown prowling after a vanished Bacchanal.
22. These amorous nations were consistent; to them everything was a God, even fear and its cowardice, even crime and its bacchanals.
23. An Alderman sat at a festive board, Quaffing the blood-red wine, And many a Bacchanal stave outpouring In praise of the fruitful vine.
24. Her hair tumbled down, and she ceased to look like the Sistine Madonna and became more like a young Bacchanal.
25. These experienced bacchanals preferred remaining at headquarters, on the principle that the séance ought to be declared permanent.
26. At such bacchanals in honor of charity, all sorts of things are permitted.
27. The threads were wet with wine, and all Were smooth to spin; They wove you like a Bacchanal, The first Faustine.
28. Another bacchanal, which may be considered one of Poussin’s masterpieces.
29. Pentheus became more irritated, and commanded his soldiers to destroy the band of Bacchanals.
30. Christianity so gained in force that at the time of supreme need it saved humanity from sinking back into the degeneracy of the Roman bacchanal.