Satanalia en · PROPN · etymology 1
Etymology
Blend of Satan + Saturnalia.
Meanings
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Synonym of Saturnalia, emphasizing the immorality of the celebration.
[…] until a complaint was made to the government, the licentiousness of these Satanalia was so gross, that it would have shocked a Greek audience, though accustomed to the plays of Aristophanes.
1843, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, Modern Egypt and Thebes: Being a Description of Egypt, page 270:This whole fraud, and these riotous Saturnalia, —I should rather say downright Satanalia, —approved as they are by the body of the Greek ecclesiastics at Jerusalem, ought to exclude those who have the control and management of them from Protestant approbation and ecclesiastical intercommunion.
1847, John Wilson, The Lands of the Bible Visited and Described - Volume 2, page 473:He did not pay too much attention to the reasons for the shops being unusually busy, although he had been told by Apulius that most people were now in the throes of preparation for the festival of Satanalia.
2012, Cyril Smith, Arbutus, page 407:It amused me to picture the consternation of the Friends, could they have peeped in at the Black Saturnalia; or, as they would have called it, Satanalia, in Barbadoes or Jamaica;
1871, Thomas Hood, The Works of Thomas Hood, page 321:We, children of earth, observe a satanalia of the early autumn in honor of the harvest-moon.
1914 September, Tamotsu Iwado, “Home-Made Letters from Japan”, in Japan, number 47, page 28: