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Webster 1913 Edition
Bacchanalia
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Bacˊcha-na′li-a
(băkˊkȧ-nā′lĭ-ȧ)
, Noun.
pl.
[L.
Bacchanal
a place devoted to Bacchus; in the pl. Bacchanalia
a feast of Bacchus, fr. Bacchus
the god of wine, Gr. Βάκχος
.] 1.
(Myth.)
A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
2.
Hence: A drunken feast; drunken revels; an orgy.