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maenadic

maenadic

English

Adjective

maenadic (comparative more maenadic, superlative most maenadic)

  1. Of, or pertaining to a maenad; frenzied. [from 19th c.]
    • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
      Dionysus, with his Maenadic night-rites, is the body as internal womb-space, tunneled for eating and procreating.

Derived terms

  • maenadically