Bacchanalise
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
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- 1 Alternative form of bacchanalize. alt-of, alternative
"It is perhaps symptomatic that he shows a partiality for the excesses of language and imagination in the plays of Webster, Fletcher, Marlowe, Otway, for the mood of these dramatists is in this more Flemish than English — they did precisely in the field of literature what Jordaens and Rubens bacchanalised on canvas."
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More examples"It is perhaps symptomatic that he shows a partiality for the excesses of language and imagination in the plays of Webster, Fletcher, Marlowe, Otway, for the mood of these dramatists is in this more Flemish than English — they did precisely in the field of literature what Jordaens and Rubens bacchanalised on canvas."
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