Recent Examples on the WebThe lesbians became the bacchants of Euripides, killing him in a festive manner.—Andrew Martin, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2020
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Word History
Etymology
Latin bacchant-, bacchans, from present participle of bacchari to take part in the orgies of Bacchus
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