Satanalia

English Etymology 1 en Satan Saturnalia. Proper noun en Saturnalia, emphasizing the immorality of the celebration. en 1843 Modern Egypt and Thebes: Being a Description of Egypt Sir John Gardner Wilkinson 270 until a complaint was made to the government, the licentiousness of these Satanalia was so gross, that it would have shocked a Greek audience, though accustomed to the plays of Aristophanes. en 1847 The Lands of the Bible Visited and Described - Volume 2 John Wilson 473 This whole fraud, and these riotous Saturnalia, —I should rather say downright Satanalia, —approved as they are by the body of the Greek ecclesiastics at Jerusalem, ought to exclude those who have the control and management of them from Protestant approbation and ecclesiastical intercommunion. en 1871 The Works of Thomas Hood Thomas Hood 321 It amused me to picture the consternation of the Friends, could they have peeped in at the Black Saturnalia; or, as they would have called it, Satanalia, in Barbadoes or Jamaica; en 1914 September Japan Home-Made Letters from Japan Tamotsu Iwado 28 47 We, children of earth, observe a satanalia of the early autumn in honor of the harvest-moon. en 2012 Arbutus Cyril Smith 407 He did not pay too much attention to the reasons for the shops being unusually busy, although he had been told by Apulius that most people were now in the throes of preparation for the festival of Satanalia. Etymology 2 From en Satan alia. Noun - Evidence of Satanic activity. en 1974 The Lutheran Witness Demon Phenom 93 4 By this time you probably have your own private The Exorcist experience story to add to a lengthening collection of "satanalia '74." en 1991 In Pursuit of Satan: The Police and the Occult Robert D. Hicks 33 Now cult cops appear everywhere: officers attend a few cult seminars, return to their departments, and organize portfolios of Satanalia so that they themselves can give seminars to teachers, parents, and enforcers;