[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bacchanalian \bac`chana"lian\ ba^k`k.an=a"li^an;
   106, a.
   of or pertaining to the festival of bacchus; relating to or
   given to reveling and drunkenness.
   1913 webster

         even bacchanalian madness has its charms. --cowper.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bacchanalian \bac`chana"lian\, n.
   a bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

bacchanalian
     adj : used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of
           bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken
           soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" syn: bacchanal, bacchic,
            carousing, orgiastic
see also:
bacchanal bacchic carousing orgiastic 

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