bacchanalize

Verb

bacchanalize (third-person singular simple present bacchanalizes, present participle bacchanalizing, simple past and past participle bacchanalized)

1. (intransitive) To behave as if at a bacchanal; to revel riotously.
   • Then we begin our free and easy party. Let us bacchanalize to the limit.1927, The Death of Ii Tairo, page 193
   • I know that a certain man [St. Ambrose of Milan] has narrated the history of the Goths, who have been recently bacchanalizing in our lands, as of Gog and Magog, thus characterizing them by their present activities, and as they are referred to in Ezechiel.1952, Francis Xavier Murphy, A Monument to Saint Jerome
2. (transitive) To make riotous and wild.
   • Imagine if you can the “ battle ” of Salvator Rosa bacchanalized.1888, Victor Hugo, Romances - Volume 4, page 64
   • To love life and to bacchanalize living are two separate instincts.1923, Walter Sydney Sichel, The sands of time: recollections and reflections, page 239