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A Bacchante; a priestess or votary of Bacchus.

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  1. n. A Bacchante; a priestess or votary of Bacchus.
  2. n. A frantic or frenzied woman.
  3. n. an unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman
  4. n. (Greek mythology) a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus
  5. 1. A Bacchante; a priestess or votary of Bacchus. 2. A frantic or frenzied woman.
  6. n. an unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman n. (Greek mythology) a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus