bacchantic

Bacchanalian; drunken or frenzied and unrestrained; orgiastic.

The orchestra played bacchantic music, and in bacchantic madness the dancers rushed by each other.

There is a passage from chaos to cosmos marked by the "bacchantic" riots of Nature and even ourselves.

Pertaining to the clergy or worship of Bacchus.

His friend Ted dancing the can-can trouserless with his shirt-tails flying, is an absurd equivalent to the bacchantic worshippers, who were supposed to don female dress during the rite.

In this way the spectators were contextualized as participants in a rite (the chorus of bacchantic dancers and those assisting were originally not separated, either spatially or in their pragmatic roles), who had to perform rite (rightly) that which lay beyond them all.

Alternative form of bacchantic.

The Perchta legends are of a somewhat wild— occasionally Bacchantic and Korybantic — character, in which the gloomy element is, however, not wanting.

Another beautiful fragment—noticed also by Mr. Koyl, who is making a releve/ of the villa—was part of a face, having the character of the Bacchantic masks of the Warwick vase.