Word Meanings - BACCHANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A priest of Bacchus. 2. A bacchanal; a reveler. Croly.
Related words: (words related to BACCHANT)
- PRIESTLIKE
Priestly. B. Jonson. - PRIESTING
The office of a priest. Milton. - PRIESTESS
A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans. Abp. Potter. - PRIEST-RIDDEN
Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people. Swift. - PRIESTISM
The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood. - 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. - PRIESTCAP
A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail. - PRIESTLY
Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell. Shak. - PRIESTCRAFT
Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others. It is better that men should - BACCHANAL
1. Relating to Bacchus or his festival. 2. Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy. - BACCHANALIAN
Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness. Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. Cowper. - PRIESTHOOD
1. The office or character of a priest; the priestly function. Bk. of Com. Prayer. 2. Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests. - PRIESTLESS
Without a priest. Pope. - BACCHANALIANISM
The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry. - BACCHUS
The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele. - PRIEST
A presbyter elder; a minister; specifically: One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power. Murdock. - REVELER
One who revels. "Moonshine revelers." Shak. - PRIESTERY
Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt. Milton. - PRIESTLINESS
The quality or state of being priestly. R. Browning. - HIGH-PRIESTHOOD
The office, dignity, or position of a high priest. - UNPRIEST
To deprive of priesthood; to unfrock. Milton. - HIGH-PRIESTSHIP
High-priesthood. - ARCHPRIEST
A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.