debacchation

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noun

wild raving or debauchery, as if drunk.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

noundebacchation (usually uncountable, plural debacchations)

plural debacchations

  1. archaicuncountableusuallywild raving or debauchery, as if drunk.

    Among those whose presence lent either a tone of dignity or debacchation to the far-famed occasion were: Beekman, Bixler, Boyd, Carver, Caemr, Collins […]

    1920, Princeton Alumni Weekly, princeton alumni weekly, page 116
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    What confidence can such have of the suffrage of the saints, who defile their holiday with most foolish vanities, most impure pollutions, most wicked debacchations, and sacrilegious execrations.

    1632, William Prynne, Histrio-Mastix, Part I, page 538, Act VI

    In that convulsive, nervous disorder, called hysterics, the patients are affected with divers strange, inconsistent and contrary symptoms; […] are weak, sad, fearful, and suspicious ; grow stiff and immovable, and again flexible ; then falling into a fit of rage, quarrelling, and debacchation ; so strong as scarce to be held by three or four persons

    1820, POLWHELE, The enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists considered by Bishop Lavington, page 249

Origin

  1. Latindebacchatio
  2. Englishdebacchation

Latin debacchatio.

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