Crossword-Solution: MAENADS 7 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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MAENADS anagram ANADEMS, MEDANAS, SAMADEN

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Bacchus-loving women 1 answer
Dionysian women 1 answer
Female bacchanalians 1 answer
Female followers of Dionysus 1 answer
Frenzied retinue of Dionysus 1 answer
Frenzied women 1 answer
Priestesses of Dionysus 1 answer
Dionysian attendants 2 answers
Bacchantes 3 answers
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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MEEZAC
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eruption
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Sentences with MAENADS (5)

Thee too I call with golden-snooded hair, Whose name our land doth bear, Bacchus to whom thy Maenads Evoe shout; Come with thy bright torch, rout, Blithe god whom we adore, The god whom gods abhor.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
Almost all the Maenads were unreasonable, and many of them insupportable; it struck me in short that he was kinder, more considerate than, in his place (if I could imagine myself in such a place!) I should have been.
The Aspern Papers Henry James 2008
Paul's declaration that the gods of the heathen were devils: these examples, then, could be transformed into a powerful argument for diabolic possession.(385) (385) As to the Maenads, Corybantes, and the disease "Corybantism," see, for accessible and adequate statements, Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities and Lewis and Short's Lexicon; also reference in Hecker's Essays upon the Black Death and the Dancing Mania.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Andrew Dickson White 1996
The rites, intended to express the excess of grief and joy at the death and reappearance of the god, were wild even to savagery, and the women who performed them were hence known by the expressive names of Bacchae, Maenads, and Thyiades.
Pagan & Christian Creeds Edward Carpenter 1998
Other critics, who do like him, but who have limited their study to a certain portion of his books, compare him to a worker in gold, who carefully chases or embosses dainty processions of fauns and maenads.
Essays in Little Andrew Lang 2007

Quotes with MAENADS (3)

Do you remember what we were speaking of earlier, of how bloody, terrible things are sometimes the most beautiful?” he said. “It’s a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves? Euripides speaks of the …
Donna Tartt The Secret History
It never was about the musician or the instrument - it was about the laser notes in a hall of mirrors, the music itself. It was going to change the world for the better and it has. Maybe not as fast or as much as we wanted, but it has and it still will. Whether your name is Mozart, or Django Reinhardt, or Robert Johnson, or Jimi Hendrix, or whoever is next; who you are doesn't matter so long as you can open that conduit and let the music come through. It is the burning edge, …
G.J. Paterson Bird of Paradise
The picture of the bacchante who stands motionless and stares into space must have been well known. Catullus is thinking of her when he tells of the abandoned Ariadne, who follows her faithless lover with sorrowing eyes as she stands on the reedy shore ‘like the picture of a maenad.’ Indeed, melancholy silence becomes the sign of women who are possessed by Dionysus. […]Madness dwells in the surge of clanging, shrieking, and pealing sounds, it dwells also in silence. The women…
Walter F. Otto Dionysus: Myth and Cult
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, WP, WSJ.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1982–2025).