Word Meanings - BACCHANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A priest of Bacchus. 2. A bacchanal; a reveler. Croly.

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• 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.