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Definitions of bacchanals in various dictionaries:

noun - someone who engages in drinking bouts

noun - a drunken reveller

noun - a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

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Wild drunken revels

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Oct 22 2005 The Times - Concise

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Plural form of bacchanal.
a wild and drunken celebration.
A wild and drunken celebration.
A priest, worshipper, or follower of Bacchus.

Bacchanals might refer to
The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus, based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia. They seem to have been popular, and well-organised, throughout the central and southern Italian peninsula. They were almost certainly associated with Rome's native cult of Liber, and probably arrived in Rome itself around 200 BC but like all mystery religions of the ancient world, very little is known of their rites. * Livy, writing some 200 years after the event, offers a scandalised, extremely colourful account of the Bacchanalia. Modern scholarship takes a skeptical approach to his allegations of frenzied rites, sexually violent initiations of both sexes, all ages and all social classes, and the cult as a murderous instrument of conspiracy against the state. Livy claims that seven thousand cult leaders and followers were arrested, and that most were executed. * Senatorial legislation to reform the Bacchanalia in 186 BC attempted to control their size, organisation, and priesthoods,

Bacchanals might refer to

The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus, based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia. They seem to have been popular, and well-organised, throughout the central and southern Italian peninsula. They were almost certainly associated with Rome's native cult of Liber, and probably arrived in Rome itself around 200 BC but like all mystery religions of the ancient world, very little is known of their rites.
* Livy, writing some 200 years after the event, offers a scandalised, extremely colourful account of the Bacchanalia. Modern scholarship takes a skeptical approach to his allegations of frenzied rites, sexually violent initiations of both sexes, all ages and all social classes, and the cult as a murderous instrument of conspiracy against the state. Livy claims that seven thousand cult leaders and followers were arrested, and that most were executed.
* Senatorial legislation to reform the Bacchanalia in 186 BC attempted to control their size, organisation, and priesthoods,

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