Satanalia
Satanalia proper noun: synonym of Saturnalia, emphasizing the immorality of the celebration.
Proper noun
Satanalia
- Synonym of Saturnalia, emphasizing the immorality of the celebration.
- […] until a complaint was made to the government, the licentiousness of these Satanalia was so gross, that it would have shocked a Greek audience, though accustomed to the plays of Aristophanes.1843, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, Modern Egypt and Thebes: Being a Description of Egypt, page 270
- This whole fraud, and these riotous Saturnalia, —I should rather say downright Satanalia, —approved as they are by the body of the Greek ecclesiastics at Jerusalem, ought to exclude those who have the control and management of them from Protestant approbation and ecclesiastical intercommunion.1847, John Wilson, The Lands of the Bible Visited and Described - Volume 2, page 473
- Synonyms:
- Saturnalia, emphasizing the immorality of the celebration
Noun
Satanalia (uncountable)
- Evidence of Satanic activity.
- By this time you probably have your own private The Exorcist experience story to add to a lengthening collection of "satanalia '74."1974, “Demon Phenom”, in The Lutheran Witness, volume 93, page 4
- Now cult cops appear everywhere: officers attend a few cult seminars, return to their departments, and organize portfolios of Satanalia so that they themselves can give seminars to teachers, parents, and enforcers;1991, Robert D. Hicks, In Pursuit of Satan: The Police and the Occult, page 33
Examples of Satanalia in a sentence
- It amused me to picture the consternation of the Friends, could they have peeped in at the Black Saturnalia; or, as they would have called it, Satanalia, in Barbadoes or Jamaica;1871, Thomas Hood, The Works of Thomas Hood, page 321:
- We, children of earth, observe a satanalia of the early autumn in honor of the harvest-moon.1914 September, Tamotsu Iwado, “Home-Made Letters from Japan”, in Japan, number 47, page 28:
Synonyms of Satanalia
- Saturnalia
- emphasizing the immorality of the celebration
Origin of Satanalia
Blend of Satan + Saturnalia.
From Satan + -alia.
Questions about Satanalia
- What does Satanalia mean?
- Satanalia means synonym of Saturnalia, emphasizing the immorality of the celebration.
- How do you use Satanalia in a sentence?
- It amused me to picture the consternation of the Friends, could they have peeped in at the Black Saturnalia; or, as they would have called it, Satanalia, in Barbadoes or Jamaica;
- What part of speech is Satanalia?
- Satanalia can be a proper noun or a noun.
Words near Satanalia in the dictionary
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