Saturnalian

saturnalian English Etymology From en Saturnalia an.n. and adj. 1 7626558212 Adjective en historical Of or pertaining to Saturnalia. en saturnalian riotously merry; dissolute. Derived terms en Saturnalians<t:Saturnalia> Translations of or pertaining to Saturnalia Manx: gv Sarnagh Noun en historical One celebrates or takes part in Saturnalia. en a. 1666 Robert Gell Notes and Observations upon Hebrews II. 14. Robert Bacon Gell’s Remaines: or, Several Select Scriptures of the New Testament Opened and Explained:Wherein Jesus Christ, as Yesterday, To Day, and the Same for Ever, Is Illustrated, in Sundry Pious and Learned Notes and Observations Thereupon. In Two Volumes. By the Learned and Judicious Dr. Robert Gell, Late Rector of St. Mary Alder-mary, London. Collected and Set in Order by R. Bacon, Ph. London Printed for Nathaniel Brooke,at the Sign of the Angel in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange. 1676 578 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_gells-remaines-or-sev_gell-robert_1676/page/578/mode/1up 11339097 What masking, what mumming, what carding, what dicing, what gluttony, what drunkenneſs, what chambering, what wontonneſs, what turning nights into days, and days into nights! This Feaſt i.e., Christmas was occaſioned by thoſe most licentious Saturnalians, and they have indeed for many years become very like them, only worſe, and that not only by connivance of Authority; en 1747 1658 [François-Antoine Pomey] w:Andrew Tooke The Historical Sense of the Fable. By Saturn Is Meant Noah. The Pantheon, Representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods, and Most Illustrious Heroes;in a Short, Plain, and Familiar Method, by Way of Dialogue. The Sixteenth Edition. Revised, Corrected, Amended, and Illustrated with New Copper Cuts of the Several Deities. For the Use of Schools. 16th London Printed for Aaron Ward, Samuel Birt, Charles Hitch, Charles Bathurst, and Mary Cooper part II, chapter I (Of the Terrestrial Deities) 145 https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-pantheon-representi_pomey-franois_1747/page/145/mode/1up 1166894 As Noah was once overcome with Wine, becauſe perhaps he never experienced the Strength of it before; ſo the Saturnalians did frequently drink exceſſively, becauſe Saturn protected drunken Men. la:Noëmus vino ſuccubuit ſemel, ejus vires fortè nondum expertus. Saturnalibus more receptum erat, multo mero ſe ingurgitare: & ebrietati Saturnus præerat. Saturnals in earlier editions. en a. 1772 John Gill A Dissertation Concerning the Rise and Progress of Popery A Collection of Sermons and Tracts:In Two Volumes. Containing, Vol. I. I. Annual Sermons. II. Occasional Sermons. III. Funeral Sermons. Vol. II. I. Ordination Sermons. II. Polemical Tracts. III. Disserations. Several of Which Were Never Before Printed. By the Late Reverend and Learned John Gill, D. D. To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author. II London Printed for George Keithin Gracechurch-Street. 1773 574 https://archive.org/details/collectionofserm02gill/page/574/mode/1up 12109383 This was a tenet of the antient hereticks; this branch of the myſtery of iniquity ſoon began to operate among them, and was held by them; by the Ebionites, who, as Epiphanius of Salamis ſays, magnified virginity, and by the Saturnalians, who ſaid, to marry and beget children was of the devil; en 25 December 1920 The Present Moment Rose Young The Woman Citizen: A Weekly Chronicle of Progress LI (Old Style) / V (New Style) 30 New York, N.Y. The Woman Citizen Corporation 813 https://archive.org/details/sim_womans-journal_1920-12-25_5_30/page/n4/mode/1up 1 1937-142X 2395192 No matter whether it is the women of Tammuz drying their eyes after weeping for Adonis, or east side children snatching oranges off a settlement Christmas tree, they have all echoed a universal, recurrent, perennial thrill—the thrill of a world glad again and of people glad together. And saying it together has brought good will to men. The Saturnalians made all men equal. The Provencals killed all enmities over their Yule Log. Peace on Earth was said in Rome when the gates of war were shut at the turn of every year. en 2008 2006 Silvia Malaguzzi Brian Phillips Carnival, a Festival of Food Food and Feasting in Art Los Angeles, Calif. Getty Publications 109 https://archive.org/details/foodfeastinginar0000mala/page/109/mode/1up 978-0-89236-914-0 There is no doubt that, historically, Carnival is a continuation of the Saturnalia, the festivities in honor of Saturn. The burlesque figure (Carnival), who is publicly put to death after a period of dissipation, seems to be a direct descendant of the king of the Saturnalians. it:Storicamente il Carnevale presenta una continuità accertata con i Saturnalia: feste in onore di Saturno; lo stesso personaggio burlesco (Carnevale), che viene messo a morte pubblicamente dopo un periodo di dissipatezze, sembra discendere direttamente dal re dei Saturnali. en saturnalian a merrymaker, a partygoer. en 1906 December O. Henry pseudonym; William Sydney Porter Compliments of the Season Ainslee’sThe Magazine That Entertains XVIII 5 New York, N.Y. Ainslee Magazine Co. 133 https://archive.org/details/sim_ainslees_1906-12_18_5/page/133/mode/1up 2 1478612 Christmas Eve, impatiently expected, was peeping over the brink of the hour. Millions had prepared for its celebration. Towns would be painted red. You, yourself, have heard the horns and dodged the capers of the Saturnalians. en 1959 w:Miroslav Krleža Zora G. Depolo The Return of Philip Latinovicz Modern Yugoslav Novels London Lincolns-Praeger 156–157 https://archive.org/details/returnofphilipla0000krle/page/157/mode/1up 9780814901366 The howling of drunken wedding-guests, the fluttering of ribbons, the stampede of frightened horses, the breaking of glasses, the dancing on the edge of bloody, atrocious crime, all this should roll across the picture like a moving, swollen ocean, and above it all clouds of drunken Saturnalians who devour their own flesh, and have turned their stinking backs on all that is star-like above us, and everything reeks and smokes and flings itself into the abyss! en 2008 Eric Robert Morse 84 Monaco: A Novel United States New Classic Books part V (Such Great Heights) 488 https://books.google.com/books?id=c40N9VTVeyYC&pg=PA488 1-600-20200-4 A salvo of pops shook the atmosphere momentarily as champagne bottles released their excitement into the air and their nectar fell onto the smiling lips of the newly arrived singing Saturnalians. 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