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Definition of Maenad

Maenad
Maenad M[ae]"nad, n. [L. Maenas, -adis, Gr. ?, ?, fr. ? to rave.] 1. A Bacchante; a priestess or votary of Bacchus. 2. A frantic or frenzied woman.

Meaning of Maenad from wikipedia

- In Gr**** mythology, maenads (/ˈmiːnædz/; Ancient Gr****: μαινάδες [maiˈnades]) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of...
- Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Maenad, after the maenads, female followers of Dionysus in Gr**** mythology: HMS Maenad (1915) was an Admiralty M-class...
- HMS Maenad was a reciprocating engine-powered Algerine-class minesweeper built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She survived the war and...
- HMS Maenad was an Admiralty M-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy during the First World War. The M class were an improvement on the previous...
- Maenad: A Women’s Literary Journal was an American feminist periodical published in Gloucester, M****achusetts in the early 1980s. The magazine's content...
- Euripides wrote that honey dripped from the thyrsos staves that the Bacchic maenads carried. The thyrsus was a sacred instrument at religious rituals and fêtes...
- defeated and possessed by the summoner Maenad, and his friends are forced to fight him to free him from the Maenad's control, though Cecil is left weakened...
- In Gr**** mythology, Eurypyle (Ancient Gr****: Εὐρυπύλην) was a maenad. She was a follower of Dionysus and was killed by Morrheus. Nonnus, 30.222 Nonnus...
- Flight Attendant / Maenad Marie ... Flight Attendant / Maenad Fallon ... Flight Attendant / Maenad Candi ... Flight Attendant / Maenad Friday Jones ......
- depicts Maenads, Dionysus' female worshippers, eating raw meat as part of their worship; however, there is little solid evidence that historical Maenads consumed...