Usage examples for bacchic:

• It is not feverish, grimy, rude, strenuous, Bacchic and wicked. "The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories" – Arnold Bennett

• They joined in bands of youths and maidens and whirled down the Avenue in Bacchic madness. "The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol" – William J. Locke

• Nay, she flies into the woodland under feigned Bacchic influence, assumes a greater guilt, arouses a greater frenzy, and hides her daughter in the mountain coverts to rob the Teucrians of their bridal and stay the marriage torches. "The Aeneid of Virgil" – Virgil

• Nickie the Kid had awakened from his slumber under the bridge, had partaken further of the whisky, then divesting himself of his overcoat and replacing the mask and head- gear of Mahdi the man- monkey, had gone forth into the bush to proclaim his kingship to the trees, and awaken the echoes of the hills with Bacchic song. "The Missing Link" – Edward Dyson