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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bacchus \Bac"chus\, n. [L., fr Gr ?] (Myth.) The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Bacchus n : (in ancient Greece and Rome) god of wine; equivalent of Dionysus [syn: {Bacchus}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. Is public worship, then, a sin, That for devotions paid to Bacchus The lictors dare to run us in And resolutely thump and whack us? Jorace
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