Saturnalian

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the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the Saturnalia.
  • adj. Of unrestrained and intemperate jollity; riotously merry; dissolute.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to the festivals celebrated in honor of Saturn.
  • Of the character of the Saturnalia of ancient Rome; hence, characterized by unrestrained license and reveling; licentious; loose; dissolute.
  • Word Usage
    "Her latest collection of short stories offers not only the poetry of Roberts's exquisite sensibilities but a saturnalian experience: the theatre of action is the dirt under our feet and fingernails, the unmediated matter of life and death."
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