bacchanalise

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A form of bacchanalize — To behave as if at a bacchanal; to revel riotously.

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Meanings

verbbacchanalise (third-person singular simple present bacchanalises, present participle bacchanalising, simple past and past participle bacchanalised)

present singular third person bacchanalises · participle present bacchanalising · participle past bacchanalised · past bacchanalised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of bacchanalize.
    1 more example

    It is perhaps symptomatic that he shows a partiality for the excesses of language and imagination in the plays of Webster, Fletcher, Marlowe, Otway, for the mood of these dramatists is in this more Flemish than English — they did precisely in the field of literature what Jordaens and Rubens bacchanalised on canvas.

    1959, James Anderson Russell, Romance and Realism: Trends in Belgo-Dutch Prose Literature
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APA

bacchanalise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bacchanalise

MLA

“bacchanalise.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bacchanalise. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bacchanalise,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bacchanalise.

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