Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bacchant

Bacchant ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Latin bacchans, -antis, present participle of bacchari to celebrate the festival of Bacchus.]

1.
A priest of Bacchus.
2.
A bacchanal; a reveler. — Croly

Bacchant , adjective

Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing. — Byron