a. [ad. L. Bacchicus, a. Gr. Βακχικός of Bacchus. Cf. F. Bacchique.]
1. Of or pertaining to Bacchus or his worship.
1669. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, I. II. iii. 30. The Bacchic Music was famous throughout Asia.
1736. Stukeley, Palæogr. Sacra, 39 (T.). The bacchick orgia were celebrated on the tops of hills.
1843. Mrs. H. Gray, Sepul. Etruria, iv. 189. Gracefully twined with branches of bacchic ivy.
2. Inspired with the frenzy of a votary of Bacchus, frenzied; riotously drunken, roystering, jovial.
1699. Burnet, 39 Art., xxiii. (1700), 255. Women Priests … filled with a Bacchick Fury.
1865. Miss Muloch, Chr. Mistake, 17. He … then broke into a broad, genial laugh, quite Bacchic.
1874. Mahaffy, Soc. Life Greece, xi. 330, note. Like Bacchic maidens who draw milk and honey from the rivers.
† B. (absol. as) sb. A drinking-song. Obs.
1676. Etheredge, Man of Mode, IV. i. (1684), 57. Let us have the new Bachique. O. Bell. That’s a hard word! What does it mean, Sir? Med. A Catch, or drinking Song.
