Bacchantic

English Adjective en bacchantic. en 1872 May The Cornhill Magazine Freia-Holda, The Teutonic Goddess of Love Karl Blind 25 149 612 The Perchta legends are of a somewhat wild— occasionally Bacchantic and Korybantic — character, in which the gloomy element is, however, not wanting. en 1913 November Journal of the American Institute of Architects Rome Letter W. C. Francis 1 10 507 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. en 1972 Georg Lukacs History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics 145 Here in our newly-won knowledge where, as Hegel puts it in the Phenomenology, "the true becomes a Bacchantic orgy in which no one escapes being drunk", reason seems to have lifted the veil concealing the sacred mystery at Saïs and discovers, as in the parable of Novalis, that it is itself the solution to the riddle. en 1996 Contemporary Drama in English - Volumes 4-6 15 All four plays interrogate the liberating potential of the Bacchantic ritual and the Dionysian spirit, which, especially in Wertenbaker's The Love of the NIghtingale, entails a self-conscious analysis of gender roles, patriarchy, and historical agency. en 2011 Johannes Ehrat Power of Scandal: Semiotic and Pragmatic in Mass Media 93 Action in Dionysian theatre always took place in a sacred context, which applied a fortiori to the Dionysian and Bacchantic orgies.