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bacchanalian

(adj): used of riotously drunken merrymaking
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3 months ago TaciturnYetProlix said:

Why can I never remember this word while I'm actually at a bacchanalia?

3 months ago _dearheart said:

"The noisy revels of bacchanalians in the Inner Sanctuary could not be more unwelcome sounds to devout worshipers than was my peal of the party toscin in the ears of those who glorified the 'Era of Good Feeling.'"

--- Martin Van Buren, on political parties, as quoted by James Ceaser in Presidential Selection

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