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Saturnalian   Listen
adjective
Saturnalian  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the Saturnalia.
2.
Of unrestrained and intemperate jollity; riotously merry; dissolute. "Saturnalian amusement."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Saturnalian" Quotes from Famous Books



... carousal which often followed deep into the night, and to these may be added posture-dances by girls from Cadiz, juggling and acrobatic feats, and other forms of "variety" entertainment. Dicing in public, except at the chartered Saturnalian festival, was illegal—a fact which did not, of course, prevent it from being practised—-but it was permitted in private gatherings like this, provided that ostensibly no money was staked. The dice are rattled in a tower-like box and are thrown ...
— Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul • T. G. Tucker

... rag, and bobtail, dancing, singing, and drinking, become his natural element; actors and actresses and drunken, roaring courtiers are to be found in his society; until the man grew so involved with Saturnalian manners and companions that he was shot almost unconsciously into the grand domestic ...
— Familiar Studies of Men & Books • Robert Louis Stevenson

... later and later for months afterwards. It was not anarchy in the Roman villa when, during the Saturnalia, the slaves turned masters or the masters slaves. It was (from the slave-owners' point of view) anarchy if, after the Saturnalia, the slaves continued to behave in a Saturnalian manner; but it is historically evident that they did not. It is not anarchy to have a picnic; but it is anarchy to lose all memory of mealtimes. It would, I think, be anarchy if (as is the disgusting suggestion of some) we all took what we liked off the sideboard. That is the way swine ...
— Eugenics and Other Evils • G. K. Chesterton



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