BACCHAKALIZATION.
BACHELOR.
A
B. jA
bacchanal, a drunken reveller, a tippler.
1617 ASSHETON Jrnl. 118481 50 All this morning we plaid
the bacchanalians. 1x704 T. BROWN To Yng. Lady Wks.
Hunt out champagne. 1870
1730 I. 66 Let Bacchanalians
ANDEKSON Missions Amer. Bd. II. iv. 28 In all the disorder
of a troop of bacchanalians.
short and
.
drunken revelry.
t
.
:
1656 BLOUNT Glossogr., Bacchanalize^ to rage, play mad
pranks, fare like mad men. 1851 S. JI'DD Margaret \\. ii.
(1871) 196 Saints bacchanalizing.
2. trans. To turn into drunken revelry; cf. prec.
priest, priestess, or inspired votary of
hence, a drunken reveller, roysterer.
2699 BOVKR Fr. Diet, (1759*, Bacchante^ a Bacchant, a
Priestess of Bacchus,
1774 Westm. Mag. II. 428 Bacchants
1853 TRENCH Proverbs 134 The
reeling to the tipsy song.
thyrsus-bearers are many, but the bacchants few.
B. as adj. Bacchus-worshipping, wine-loving.
1800 MOORE Anacrcon iv. 15 Many a rose-lipped bacchant
Bacco, baccy,
Of
(baka"ntik), a, [f. BACCHANT\E +
or pertaining to the devotees of Bacchus.
Bacchar, baccar (ba-kaj). Bot. [a. L. bacc(h}ar, bacc(Ji}aris (also used in Eng.), a. Gr.
a Lydian word'), a plant
a*x a P (y
pdnftapis,
with an aromatic root yielding oil.]
plant
(Baccharis is
variously identified by botanists.
now applied to an American genus of Cotnpositx?)
in englishe
1551 TURNER Herbal 1 568 57 a. Baccharis
A
1
(
. .
sage of hierusalem. x6oz HOLLAND Pliny\\. 85 Bacchar is
named by some Rustick-Nard. 1616 SL-RFL. & MARKH.
take Asarum
Countr. Farm 144 Against the colicke
bacchar. 1753 CHAMBERS Cycl. Snpp., Baccharis, Bacchar
commonly called plowman's spikenard. 1855 SINGLETON
Virgil \. 27 Her gadding ivies everywhere with baccaris,
Shall earth unbosom. Ibid, 47 With baccar binding brow.
:
.
.
Obs.
[ad. L. bacchatidn-cm t
bacchdri see BACCHANT and -TIUN.]
*Kiot, drunkenness.' Blount Glossogr. 1656.
L. Bacche-ns t a.
Bacclie'an, a. Obs.[f.
Or. Bdtfx*"^ + -AX.]
'Belonging to Bacchus,
drunken, sottish.' Blount Glossogr. 1656.
Bacchian (bae-kian), a. [f. L, Bacchi-us, a.
Gr. Ba*x** + -AN.]
Having the attributes of
rBaccha'tion.
of action
n.
f.
\
<
Bacchus.
1850 LEITCH
M
is
filler s Anc. Art
203 note, Antinous
sometimes also represented as Bacchian, sitting on a panther.
.
.
(b?e-kik), a. [ad. L. Bacchicus, a. Gr.
Cf. F. Bacchiquc]
BaKx<tfo? of Bacchus.
1. Of or pertaining to Bacchus or his worship.
1669 GALE Crt. Gentiles i. n. iii. 30 The Bacchic Music was
famous throughout Asia. 1736 STUKELEV Palxogr. Sacra
were celebrated on the tops of
39 tT.) The bacchick orgia
hills.
1843 MRS. H. GRAY Sepnl. Etniria iv. 189 Gracefully
Bacchic
twined with branches of bacchic ivy.
2. Inspired with the frenzy of a votary of Bacchus,
frenzied ; riotously drunken, roystering, jovial.
1699 KURNET 39 Art. xxiii. (1700! 255 Women Priests ..
filled with a Bacchick Fury.
1865 Miss MULOCH Chr.
Mistake 17 He then broke intoa broad, genial laugh, quite
Bacchic. 1874 MAHAFFV Soc. Life Greece xi. 330 note, Like
Bacchic maidens who draw milk and honey from the rivers.
drinking-song. Obs.
f B. (absoL as) sb.
1676 ETHF.RF.DGE Man of Mode iv. i. (1684* 57 Let us have
the new Bachique. O. Bell, That's a hard word What does
Med. A Catch, or drinking Song.
it mean, Sir?
.
.
A
!
t Ba'cchical,
a.
0^. =
Bacchins
(bakai-fe). [L.,
1560
and mod. Sc. baiss to beat, drub.
blow; a drubbing.
HOLLAND Crt. Venus iv. 678 Swyith pak
or 3our
.
BAKEN.
Bace, Bacen,
Bacha, earlier form of basha BASHAW.
Bachanal, etc., obs. forms, of BACCHANAL, etc.
Bacharach. (ba'xarax, bwkanck'. Also 7
Back-rac(k, -rag, Baccharach, Bachrag, -rach.
A town on the Rhine giving its name to a wine
obs. forms of BASE,
a.
Gr. Ba#x">*
( s c-
Company of 1711.)
[1390 Archives o/ Grocers' Comp. 76 Eslieuxz Mesteresdez
Grocers Roberd Peper et Herri Hatton Bacheleres].
14*7
in Heath Grocers' Comp. 118691 5 Diuerse persones ikallyd
A
18
WRIOTHESLEY
Chron.
L
Bacheleris.
barge
(1875)
1533
Majors crafte. 1691 BLOUNT Law
s.v., Every Company of the Twelve, consists of a Master,
two Wardens, the Livery, (which are Assistants m Matters of
also of Batchlers of the
Diet,
much esteemed.
ci6>o r LETCH & MASS. Begg, Bush v. ii, My fire-works
and flap-dragons and good back-rack. 1656 BLOUNT C/fWgy.
s.v., Wines which are made there, and therefore called Bachrag or Bacharach vulgarly, Rhenish wines.
1678 BUTLKR
Hud. in. iii. 300 Stoutly overcome With Bachrach. 18x0
o/the
first
Abbot
SCOTT
xv, Bacharac,
vintage.
1851 LONGF.
Gold, /,(". 171 A draught from the noble Bacharach cask.
Bachare, obs. form of BAKER.
t Baclie. Obs. Also 3 beech, b8ecch(e, 9 -bach,
-batch.
Possibly a dialect
[Origin doubtful.
form of *bccch, hctch answering to an OE. *b$cc t
Council, oral the least, such as the Assistants are chosen out of)
and the Bachelors, who are yet but in expectance of Dignity
among them, an"d have their Function only in attendance
upon the Master and Wardens. 1809 TOMLISS Law Diet.
s.v., The bachelors, in other companies called the yeomanry.
formerly
;
3.
'
.
1673
several were bachelors.
fb.
.
4.
now
Clatterbach
are fields
Bachelor
3-7
it,
Forms : 3-6 bacheler,
(bsrt/flaa).
-ilere, -iller, -illier, bachler(e,
4-5
-iler,
bachelar, 6
batchellour, -elar, bacchelaure, 6-7 batcheler,
-ellor, -eller, batchler, 7 bachelaur, -elour, 7-8
batchelour, 8 bachellour, 5- bachelor, [a. OF,
-elere,
5
-
-ylere,
baculere,
=Pr. bacalar.
5 -6
L. type *bacThe later F. bachecalaris, of doubtful origin.
Her is corrupted in the termination, as is the i6th c.
Eng. bachelour^ bachelor cf. ANCESTOR, and see
The original meaning being uncertain, the
-OR.
sense-development is also doubtful.
Of med.L. baccaldris only a few late instances occur (in
sense 1 which might be from the mod. langs. (see Du Cange,
bacheler
p
It.
bace alare
:
:
Bacularis\ 1 1 was, however, prob. connected with baccalaria^
a division of land, of which the size and nature varied at
different times, and with the adjectives baccalarhts, -aria,
applied m 8th c. to rustic* male and female who worked for
.
.
unmarried man (of marriageable age).
CHAUCER Merck. T. 34 Bacheleris [T. r. bachilers,
An
.1386
e 1450
-elers, -ilHers] haue often peyne and wo.
And bryngStnigs <y Carols (1847) 35 If thou be a bachelar,
Scottes
223 She
est horn a wyfe.
154? J- HARRISON Exhort.
was to olde a mayde for so yonge a bachelar. 1553 '!'
-elerys,
.
called
is
situated,
inexperienced person, a novice. Obs.
.
(1862) 54
is
An
will
. .
In two other stream-vales, east of
(-batch).
called \Vithty Batch, and Mare Batch.
transf.
1604 T. WRIGHT Passions Mind iv. i. 114 Some men
about matters exceeding their capacitie . I haue
dispute
heard these batchellors hold talke .^wilfully and obstinatly
in matters of Philosophic and Diuinitie.
In Clent, in Convalle Bwina\.
1205 LAY. 757
wes be wei holh & long;
(He] ferde a:fter ane bache
Ibid. 2596 He bicom in a
[1*50] pe cleues weren stronge.
he bale funde. Ibid. 21776 Of dalen & of dunen,
& of ba;cehen deopen. riws St. Kenclm 244 in E. E. P.
Kenelm's chapel
.
18 Every Batchelor is called Doctissimus.
1843 SIR J.
COLERIDGE in Arnolifs Life fy Corr. I. L 9 Of the scholars
interp.
.
or lowest degree
[In this sense, latinized as baccalarhts, subsequently altered by a pun or word-play to baccalaureus as if connected
with bacca lauri laurel berry, which has sometimes been
gravely given as the etymology.']
i36a LANGL. P. PI. A. Prol. 90, I sauh fcwr Bisschops
BoTde and Bachilers of diuyn. c 1386 CHAUCER Fnmkl. T.
was that tyme a Bacheler of lawe. 1577
398 His felawe
HAKKISON England i. n. iii. 79 They ascend higher unto the
estate of batchelers of art after foure yeares.
1614 SELDEN
Titles Hon. 55 Dpminns is now familiar for Sir to euery
RAY Journ. Low C.
Batcheler of Art in the Schools.
t
Coubache me clipeae J>is valeye iv. }ut me doj also :
In Coubache pis holi bodi lay wel menie a ?er. Ibid. 289
Vnder \fc porn of Coubage. 1393 LANGLAND /'. PI. C. vui.
159 Bote blostered forth as bestes, ouer baches and hulles.
whiche
1494 FABYAN vi. clviii. 147 At Clent in Cowbacch
is to meane in Englysshe nowe vsyd, at Clent in Cow vale.
vale
which
St.
The
in
AMPHLETT
(in
letter}
deep
1884 J.
first
of Arts, etc.)
:
OE
the
university, who is not yet a master of the
Arts. (In this use, a woman may now be Bachelor
OTeut. *bakjo-z t cogEng. BECK
bfce: OTeut. *baki-z brook, rivuThe transference of meaning from
stream to stream-valley would be parallel to the
north Eng. and Lowland Sc. use of -burn, -water,
in proper names, for the whole river-vale or dale.]
The_yale of a stream or rivulet.
a 1000 in Kemble CfnT. 7TA*""TH. 380 Of SAm ascere in
la 1200
caersa baec (printed bait], of oam bzce in pipan.
Notes to LAYAMON III. 447 At Clent in Cu-bache [Lat.
bekkr,
One who has taken
at a
t
ON.
.
Grocers'
t
nate with
let, stream.
1415
duke,
'
bak beir a bace.
|
now
;
A
.
we
c 1500
A
to beat, strike,
1,
prec.
1663 J. Si-tNCER Prophecies (.\&b$) 78 They raised up a kind
of Bacchical Enthusiasm.
|[
vulgar abbreviations of TOBACCO.
Obs.
t Bace[Cf. Sw. has beating, flogging,
basa to beat, flog, also Da. bask stripe, blow, baske
it
P
and bachelere.
,
1833 MARRYAT P. Simple (18631 9 'You must larn to chaw
1860 All Y. Round No. 57. 161 His wife has found
baccy.'
his 'bacco-box.
(Jam.)]
\v. r. bachiler(e, -elere, -illierj of al his hous.
asse
in fere,
all
11859) II- I2 5
Poems
.
. .
\
1845 HIRST Poems 97 With Bacchantic figures glowing.
1878 A*. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 53 Bacchantic dances.
:
on berries.
1661 LOVELL Hist. Anim, <y J/V. Introd., Birds which are
baccivorous, as the Thrush. [In BAILEY, and mod. Diets.]
(bakcrnt, barkant, bakae-ntz"), sb.
see
F. bacchante, ad. L. Bacchdntem
first pronunciation is after the Fr. ;
Bacchantic
Diet.
eating, living chiefly
A
-K'.]
HOOPER Med.
1839 in
L. bacca
(bftksi*v5rai\ a.
[f.
-vorus devouring cf. F. baccivore.] Berry-
berry +
Bacchante
air.
:
Berry-shaped.
Baccivorous
the o'erflowing cup.
chante
^barksifpim), a. [ad. mod.L. haccibacca berry
see -FORM.
Cf. F. bacci-
f.
forme.']
Is culling clusters in their shade.
1821 BVRON yuan
Over his shoulder, with a Bacchant air, Presented
:
;
formis,
in. xliii,
[a.
.
.
Partenay 1925 This knight is A
wort hi baculere. 1513 LD. BERNFRS Froiss. \. cclxiv. 300
Let sir Johan Chandos do his by himselfe, sythe he is but a
bacheler.
i8z8 HALLAM Mid. Ages (18721 1. 195 Vavassors
who obtained knighthood were commonly styled bachelors.
b. Hence, Knight Bachelor, a knight of the lowest
but most ancient order ; the full title of a gentleman who has been knighted (without belonging to
any one of the specially named 'orders').
1609 tr. Sir T. Smith's Commit*. Eng. 25 He [a banneret]
being before a batcheler knight, is now ofa higher degree.
were an1614 SELDEN Titles Hon. 336 These Knights
1809 TOMLINS
ciently call'd Baccalaurei, or Bachelors.
Laiv Diet. Knight-bachelor a simple knight, and not
knight -banneret, or knight of the bath.
188^ Whitaker'^
Aim. 108 Knights Bachelors: a list of those Gentlemen [in
number 278] who have received the honour of knighthood.
1
f2.
junior or inferior member, or 'yeoman,
of a trade-guild, or City Company. Obs.
(In London, their position and functions seem to have
varied at different times, and in different Companies in
later times Bachelors were appointed only for ceremonial
occasions, chiefly when one of the Company was chosen
Lord Mayor, their duty being to serve in foynes and
So in Bye Laws of
budge' on Ix>rd Mayor's Day.
erle,
. .
A
The
Bacheler
Pol.
Bacciforni
;
a.}
.
ciferous herb.
frenzied gestures the festival of Bacchus.]
prec.
1. A young knight, not old
enough, or having
too few vassals, to display his own banner, and
who therefore followed the banner of another ; a
novice in arms.
[On this sense was founded the
conjectural etymology of Bos chevalier^
R.
GLOUC,
bow art strong
1197
453 Syre ?ong bacheler
& corageus, 11300 Cursor M. 8541 He was a borli bacheIn
al
had
na
c
werld
he
lere,
^>at
pere.
1386 CHAUCER Sqrs.
T. 16 Yong, fressh, strong, and in Armes desirous, As any
.
Berry-bearing, producing berries.
1668 WILKISS Real Char. 96
1656 in BLOUNT Glnssogr.
Herbs Bacciferous whose seeds are included in a juicy
i86a J. WILSON Farming 48 The potato
is a bacpulpe.
.
'
'
f if2 re.]
:
the third after It. (etc.) baccante* favoured perhaps
by the fact that the plural (of both genders) is
often Bacchantes (-arnt/z) after L.]
A. sb.
priestess or female votary of Bacchus.
1797 HoLCRQfTtr. Stafford's 7Vrt7'.III.lxxvii.<ed, 21170 She
capered with the intoxication ofa Bacchante. 1811 L. HAWKISS C'tcss fy Gertr. I. 313 Whether male or female, a bacchante, or a Silenus.
1847 LONGF. /;r. n. 2 To follow or
guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes.
B. attnb. as adj. cf. BACCHANT.
1821 BYRON yuan iv. xcii. A Bacchante blooming visage.
1868 H. LEE B. Godfrey 1. 283 Emmot laughed with her bac-
ing for the sense) suggests Celtic bacha.il stick (a. L, bacnlns\ \ the Welsh bach little must be definitely discarded, its
old Celtic form being bice- or becc-, Irish becc. (Thurneysen. >)
:
Bacchant (bae-kant), $h. (and aO [ad. L. Bacchant-em sb. (in L. fem. only see next; f. pr. pple.
of bacchari, ad. Or. fiaaxa-ftv to celebrate with
(and
liquor.
;
(barkanalaiz), v.
[a. F. baechanaliser (Cotgr.)
see BACCHANAL and -IZE.]
1. intr. To act as a bacchanal, indulge in revelry.
maid
L. and Romanic for vacca cow, through *6accdfis(cf. avilis
ffi'is sheep\ in which case it might be 'grazing farm,'
and baccalariits one employed on it, the assistant ofa colonus
who had not a mansus of his own; Littre' (without account-
from
The
.
Bacchanalize
sl>.
(ed. 2)49/2
Gr.Ba*x*-]
;
A
A.
e"clairc. xxii.)
But the precise relation
of *baccaldris to these words, and its subsequent history
are still uncertain. Still more doubtful is its derivation :
baccalaria is with some probability referred to bacca, late
1496 DL-NUAR Gold. Terge 124 Bacus, the gladder of the
table,
i 1640 WALLER
Batt. Summer Isi. 17 The sweet
pal met toes a new Bacchus yield.
1747 Scheme Equip. Men
ofH'ar 36 The more corpulent Sons of Bacchus .. might
have Easy-Chairs.
BYRON
Island
n. xi, The palm
1813
Within whose bosom infant Bacchus broods.
b. Comb. Bacchus-bole
Bacchus-like.
17x5 BRADLEY Fatn. Diet., Bacchus- Bole, a Flower that is
not tall, but a very full, large, broad-leav'd Flower, being of
a sad light Purple. 1600 H'itt's Kecr. in Southey's Comnwn~
pi. Bk. Ser. u. 314 They mean, then, Bacchus-like to feed.
Bacciferous (bseksrferas), a. [f. L. bacdfer
cf. F. bac(f. bacca berry + -fcr bearing) -t- -ous
[f.
(bic'kanselaizJi'Jan).
next : see -ATION.]
turning into drunken revel.
XXVII.
A
bacchanal572
1798 W.TAYLOR in. 1/iwM. Rev.
ization of the eucharist.
Bacchus
de Beaulieu Introd.
<
Bacclianalizatiou
,
[L., a.
hence, wine, intoxicating
god of wine
Son of Bacchus: a tippler.
to
bacchanalianism.
1858 LADY WALLACK Fredk. Gf. 11.214
Four years of bacchanalism
which the Count had passed.
.
Bacchus (bse-k/is).
H
Bacchana liaiily
adv. t with drunken revelry (in Webster 1864).
1855 Scot. Rev. 267 To lend the power of his genius
one
.
penta nce enuring. 1870 JKBB Sophocles' Electro,
A bacchius 10* dft4<) replacing the molossus,
Bacchana'lianism, Ba cchanalism, bacchanalian practices,
metrical foot of three syllables,
two long.
1589 PUTTENHAM Eng. /*<>*>( Arb.) 1 34 For your foote bacchius of a short and two long ye haue
renouncing^ r-
.
.
A
inn's).]
the colonus or tenant ofa ntansus. (See Deloche, Cartulaire
j
WILSON Rhet. 24 The syngle lyfe of Bacchelaures. 1607
DLKKKH Northiv. Hoe\\. Wks. 1873 III. 53 His wife!..!
haue heard him sweare he was a bachiler. 1750 JOHNSON
Rambl. No. 18 p 5 The unsettled, thoughtless condition of
a batchelor. 1856 F. PAGET Owlet Oivlst. 151 A series of
bachelor-incumbents.
1875 WHITNEY Life Lang. ix. 156
dialect, offensive to the ears of old bachelors.
Nursery
b. Bachelors wife: the ideal wife of which a
bachelor theorizes or dreams.
.
.
1562 J. HEYWOOD Prm: 4- Epigr. (1867) 61 Bachelers
VANBRUGH
wiues, and maides children be well tought. 1726
Husb. i. i, Ay ay ! . Bachelors' wives, indeed, are
1854 H. MILLER Sch. *e Schm. (.18581 53
finely governed.
The 'bachelor's wife', .occupies a large place in our literaever wrote on love
ture, as the mistress of all the poets who
Prm
1
!
.
.
without actually experiencing it.
maid, a single woman. Obs. rare.
f 5.
A
He wuuld keep you
1631 B. JONSON Magnet. Lady u. i,
And keep you not alone without a husbatchelor still
A
.
.
band, But in a sickness.
6. Comb. Bachelor-like a., like, or of the nature
a bachelor ; bachelor-room, a room occupied
i a and 4 above.)
by a single man. (Also at f rib. in
of,
1611 COTGR., Bachclier^
Bachelerly, bacheler-like.
18x4