Bacchic Definition | What is Bacchic? - PoetrySoup
Definition
Classical meter consisting of three syllables per foot: two long and one short.
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[adj] used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity"
Classical meter consisting of three syllables per foot: one short, one long, one long.
Synonyms
bacchanal, bacchanalian, carousing, drunk, inebriated, intoxicated, orgiastic
Related Terms
amok, berserk, corybantic, desperate, Dionysiac, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, like one possessed, mad, madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal, rabid, raging, ranting, raving, raving mad, running wild, stark-raving mad, uncontrollable, violent, wild
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