Baccalaureate sermon, in some American colleges, a sermon delivered as a farewell discourse to a graduating class.

Baccara
(||Bac`ca*ra", Bac`ca*rat") n. [F.] A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

Baccare
(Bac*ca"re, Bac*ka"re) interj. Stand back! give place! — a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess.

Baccare! you are marvelous forward.
Shak.

Baccate
(Bac"cate) a. [L. baccatus, fr. L. bacca berry.] (Bot.) Pulpy throughout, like a berry; — said of fruits. Gray.

Baccated
(Bac"ca*ted) a.

1. Having many berries.

2. Set or adorned with pearls. [Obs.]

Bacchanal
(Bac"cha*nal) a. [L. Bacchanalis. See Bacchanalia.]

1. Relating to Bacchus or his festival.

2. Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.

Bacchanal
(Bac"cha*nal) n.

1. A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser. "Tipsy bacchanals." Shak.

2. pl. The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.

3. Drunken revelry; an orgy.

4. A song or a dance in honor of Bacchus.

Bacchanalia
(||Bac`cha*na"li*a) n. pl. [L. Bacchanal a place devoted to Bacchus; in the pl. Bacchanalia a feast of Bacchus, fr. Bacchus the god of wine, Gr. Ba`kchos.]

1. (Myth.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.

2. Hence: A drunken feast; drunken revels; an orgy.

Bacchanalian
(Bac`cha*na"li*an) a. Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.

Even bacchanalian madness has its charms.
Cowper.

Bacchanalian
(Bac`cha*na"li*an), n. A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.

1. The degree of bachelor of arts the first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges.

2. A baccalaureate sermon. [U.S.]

Baccalaureate
(Bac`ca*lau"re*ate), a. Pertaining to a bachelor of arts.


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