maenadic
adjUK /miːˈnadɪk/
Etymology From maenad + -ic.
1
Of, or pertaining to a maenad; frenzied.
- Dionysus, with his Maenadic night-rites, is the body as internal womb-space, tunneled for eating and procreating.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- Derived terms
- maenadically
- Related terms
- Bacchanalian, bacchanalian, Dionysian, dionysian