Usage examples for bacchanalian:

• These wolves, during the ardent heats of August, suffer dreadfully from thirst; and finding no water, take to the vineyards, and endeavour to assuage it by eating large quantities of grapes, very cool, and no doubt very delightful at the time; but the treacherous juice ferments, Bacchanalian fumes soon infect their brain, and for several hours these gentlemen are for a time entirely deprived of their senses. "Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches" – Henri de Crignelle

• " I am," said the Tennessee Shad, " and all I ask while this feast of bacchanalian orgies is going on, is that I be allowed to sleep." "The Varmint" – Owen Johnson F. R. Gruger

• And, what punishment can be too great, what mark of infamy sufficiently signal, for those pernicious villains of talent, who have employed that talent in the composition of Bacchanalian songs; that is to say, pieces of fine and captivating writing in praise of one of the most odious and destructive vices in the black catalogue of human depravity! "The Young Man's Guide" – William A. Alcott

• You have made a mistake; this is a prison, not a bacchanalian revel. "A Christian But a Roman" – Mór Jókai