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 Translation for 'Bacchanalian' from English to Latin
NOUN   Bacchanalian | Bacchanalians
SYNO bacchanal | bacchanalian | bacchic | ...
Bacchanalis {adj}Bacchanalian
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Translation for 'Bacchanalian' from English to Latin

Bacchanalian
Bacchanalis {adj}
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Usage Examples English
  • Others consider that Hellenistic influence appears in the liveliness and the realistic details of the figures (an evolution compared to the stiffness of Mauryan art), the use of perspective from 150 BCE, iconographical details such as the knot and the club of Heracles, the wavy folds of the dresses, or the depiction of bacchanalian scenes.
  • His bacchanalian poem in praise of Tuscan wines is still read in Italy today.
  • The rabbits in the works are frolicking in bacchanalian landscapes.
  • The annual Winterfest in Coventry, Rhode Island, is a bacchanalian celebration of the oppressive cold of New England winters. It is intended to bring the arrival of spring through drink and food.
  • The lyrics reflect an endorsement of the bacchanalian mayhem of student life while simultaneously retaining the grim knowledge that one day we will all die.

  • Staff members called themselves the "Rangeroos" and were known for their bacchanalian parties, especially in the 1960s during Gilbert Shelton's reign as editor.
  • The name Circo de Bakuza was a Montreal street show previously created by the founder of the agency, and a reference to the bacchanalian culture.
  • The LA Times wrote of the movie: "Cleverly juxtaposes the apex of American bacchanalian excess with the sweatshop-like conditions that facilitate the fun."
  • Starting in the Late Middle Ages and thereafter, some believed that witches applied these ointments or ingested these potions to help them fly to gatherings with other witches, meet with the Devil, or to experience bacchanalian carousal.
  • One of his last lectures was on the bacchanalian songs of Robert Burns.

  • Mitchell is a member of the elite Burgundian bacchanalian fraternity, the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin.
  • One wall of the adjacent bathroom has a bucolic frieze painted by Picasso into the plaster, a large scale version of his many bacchanalian scenes, with a faun playing on pipes amid greenery.
  • A self-described bacchanalian and an alcoholic, Persson has famously coped with his addiction by practicing a strict half-year regime since the late 1980s: denying himself alcohol (and other drugs) for six months, and then drinking heavily during the rest of the year.
  • Cymbals have been utilized historically to suggest frenzy, fury or bacchanalian revels, as seen in the Venus music in Wagner's "Tannhäuser", Grieg's "Peer Gynt suite", [...] and Osmin's aria "O wie will ich triumphieren" from Mozart's "Die Entführung aus dem Serail".
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