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What does bacchic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous, with intoxication.
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But in spirit these orderly scenes barely nod to the bacchic mayhem that propelled the Jazz Age towards the Wall Street Crash.
Aristotle calls the flute orgiastic because it contributes to religious insanity but often refers to drums in bacchic, corybantic or similar ecstatic worship.
Muster your teams and customers around a simple bacchic activity.
Georges Faiveley and his friend Camille Rodier founded the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, the renaissance of an old bacchic brotherhood from the Middle Ages.
Some vessels and jewellery are adorned with traditional pagan motifs, such as hunting and Bacchic scenes, or Hercules wrestling the giant Antaeus.
The Orphic literature influenced many Bacchic mystery groups in antiquity.

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