bacchanalise

English

Verb

bacchanalise (third-person singular simple present bacchanalises, present participle bacchanalising, simple past and past participle bacchanalised)

1. Alternative form of bacchanalize
   • 1959, James Anderson Russell, Romance and Realism: Trends in Belgo-Dutch Prose Literature:

     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.