Băc'cha-nals or Băc'cha-nā'li-ā, n. pl.

n. pl. [Lat. Bacchanal, a place devoted to Bacchus, in the pl. Bacchanalia, a feast of Bacchus, from Bacchus, Gr. Βάκχος, the god of wine.] (Myth.) Feasts in honor of Bacchus; hence, drunken feasts; the revels of Bacchanalians.