Crossword-Solution: BACCHIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bacchic | a. | Alt. of Bacchical |
We have 5 clues for the answer “BACCHIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Drunkenly debauched | 1 answer |
| Given to carousing | 1 answer |
| Jovially drunken | 1 answer |
| CAROUSING BANDS OF DRUNKEN SOLDIERS | 10 answers |
| Bacchanal | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BACCHIC (5)
They sing with a certain lustiness and Bacchic glee; the volume of sound and the articulate melody fall unexpected from the tree-top, whence we anticipate the chattering of fowls.
Spencer quotes that among the Bacchic orgies of many of the tribes of North America, at the inauguration of one of the Clallum chiefs on the northwest coast of British America, the chief seized a small dog and began to devour it alive, and also bit the shoulders of bystanders.
But they mixed their wine with water—which I'm sure they didn't oughter— And we modern Saxons know a trick worth two of that, I think! Then came rather risky dances (under certain circumstances) Which would shock that worthy gentleman, the Licenser of Plays, Corybantian maniac kick—Dionysiac or Bacchic— And the Dithyrambic revels of those undecorous days.
But they mixed their wine with water—which I’m sure they didn’t oughter— And we Anglo-Saxons know a trick worth two of that, I think! Then came rather risky dances (under certain circumstances) Which would shock that worthy gentleman, the Licenser of Plays, Corybantian mani_ac_ kick—Dionysiac or Bacchic— And the Dithyrambic revels of those indecorous days.
The final scenes especially are such a Bacchic reel and rout and revelry of beauty as leaves one staggered and giddy; poetry is spilt like wine, music runs to drunken waste.
Quotes with BACCHIC (1)
If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, tha…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2002–2020).