Word Meanings - BACCHANALIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus. 2. Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler. (more info) Bacchus; in the pl. Bacchanalia a feast of Bacchus, fr. Bacchus the god of wine, Gr.
Related words: (words related to BACCHANALIA)
- HONORABLE
1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an - HONORABLENESS
1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness. - FEAST
festival, F. fĂȘte, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year - DRUNKENNESS
1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I. - HONOR
1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii. - HONORARY
1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay. 2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison. 3. Holding a title or place without rendering - DRUNKEN
1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon. 2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched. Let the earth be drunken with our blood. Shak. 3. Pertaining - BACCHANALIA
A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus. 2. Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler. (more info) Bacchus; in the pl. Bacchanalia a feast of Bacchus, fr. Bacchus the god of wine, Gr. - HENCE
ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send - HONORLESS
Destitute of honor; not honored. Bp. Warburton. - HONORARIUM; HONORARY
An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price. Heumann. (more info) 1. A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand - FEASTER
1. One who fares deliciously. 2. One who entertains magnificently. Johnson. - HONORER
One who honors. - HONORIFIC
Conferring honor; tending to honor. London. Spectator. - DRUNKENHEAD
Drunkenness. - DRUNKENSHIP; DRUNKSHIP
The state of being drunk; drunkenness. Gower. - HENCEFORWARD
From this time forward; henceforth. - BACCHANALIAN
Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness. Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. Cowper. - BACCHANALIANISM
The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry. - BACCHUS
The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele. - HEREHENCE
From hence. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - THENCEFROM
From that place. - DISHONOR
The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor; - OUTFEAST
To exceed in feasting. - THENCE
see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark - ARCHENCEPHALA
The division that includes man alone. R. Owen. - THENCEFORTH
From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12. - FORDRUNKEN
Utterly drunk; very drunk. Chaucer. - DISHONORABLE
1. Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base. 2. Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed. He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more - WHENCEEVER
Whencesoever.