Bacchant noun & adjective. ['bakǝnt] Also bacchant. Pl. Bacchants, Bacchantes [bǝ'kantɪz]. L16.
[French bacchante: see BACCHANTE.]
A. noun. A priest, priestess, or devotee of Bacchus, the Greek and Roman god of wine; a drunken reveller, a roisterer. L16.
B. adjective. Bacchus-worshipping; wine-loving. E19.

■ Bacchantic [bǝ'kantɪk] adjective M19.

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