bacchantic adjective2 •Pertaining to the clergy or worship of Bacchus.His friend Ted dancing the can-can trouserless with his shirt-tails flying, is an absurd equivalent to the bacchantic worshippers, who were supposed to don female dress during the rite. — 1996 •Bacchanalian; drunken or frenzied and unrestrained; orgiastic.The orchestra played bacchantic music, and in bacchantic madness the dancers rushed by each other. — 1878 formsmore Bacchantic · most Bacchantic