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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
maenad /ˈmiːnad/

▶noun (in ancient Greece) a female follower of Bacchus, traditionally associated with divine possession and frenzied rites.

– derivatives
maenadic adjective.

– origin C16: via L. from Gk Mainas, Mainad-, from mainesthai ‘to rave’.

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