VVild yuie) for it is dedicated to Bacchus & therefore it is ſayd that the Mænades (that is Bacchus franticke prieſtes) vſed in theyr ſacrifice to carry Thyrſos, vvhich vvere pointed ſtaues or Iauelins, vvrapped about vvith yuie.
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Maenad
//ˈmiːnæd//
Synonyms for "maenad" (3 found)
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43 translations across 33 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μαινάς noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Basque
1 entries- menade noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Breton
2 entries- mainadezed noun (female follower of Dionysus)
- menadezed noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Bulgarian
1 entries- менада noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Catalan
1 entries- mènada noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 邁那得斯 /迈那得斯 noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Czech
2 entries- bakchant noun (female follower of Dionysus)
- mainad noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Danish
1 entries- mænade noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Dutch
2 entries- maenade noun (female follower of Dionysus)
- mainade noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Esperanto
1 entries- menado noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Estonian
1 entries- menaad noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Finnish
2 entries- mainadi noun (female follower of Dionysus)
- mainadi noun (excessively emotional or wild woman)
French
2 entries- ménade noun (female follower of Dionysus)
- ménade noun (excessively emotional or wild woman)
German
1 entries- Mänade noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Indonesian
1 entries- mainad noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Italian
2 entries- evia noun (female follower of Dionysus)
- menade noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Latin
2 entries- Thyias noun (female follower of Dionysus)
- maenade noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Lithuanian
2 entries- mainadė noun (female follower of Dionysus)
- menadė noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Macedonian
1 entries- мена́да noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Malay
1 entries- maenad noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Persian
1 entries- مایناد noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Polish
2 entries- bachantka noun (excessively emotional or wild woman)
- menada noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Portuguese
1 entries- ménade noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Romanian
1 entries- menade noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Russian
1 entries- мена́да noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- menade noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Slovak
2 entries- mainad noun (female follower of Dionysus)
- menád noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Spanish
1 entries- ménade noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Swedish
1 entries- menad noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Turkish
1 entries- maenad noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Ukrainian
1 entries- менада noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nữ thần loạn trí noun (female follower of Dionysus)
West-Frisian
1 entries- mainade noun (female follower of Dionysus)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
The ſecrets of the good goddeſs are knovvn, vvhen the pipe the loins / Incites; and alſo vvith the horn, and vvith vvine, the Mænads of Priapus / Are driven, aſtoniſhed, and toſs their hair and hovvl.
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I, a most enamoured maiden / Whose weak brain is overladen / With the pleasure of her love, / Maniac-like around thee move / Gazing, an insatiate bride, / On thy form from every side / Like a Mænad, round the cup / Which Agave lifted up / In the wierd^([sic – meaning weird]) Cadmæan forest.
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Even in the uttermost frenzy of energy is each mænad movement royally, imperially, incedingly upborne.
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