comast means A reveler, usually drunken or riotous. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 72 out of 100.
Why this word is great
COMAST — [Noun] A participant in a komos; a reveler, especially one who is drunken or riotous. From Ancient Greek κωμαστής (kōmastḗs, "reveler"), from κῶμος (kômos, "merrymaking, revelry"). Unlike a symposiast—who reclines in the ordered, philosophical discourse of a private symposium—or a generic carouser, stripped of ritual weight, the comast is a creature of public, processional abandon. He is the torchlit silhouette staggering across a black-figure vase, the wine-slicked chorister bellowing hymns in the midnight lane, the costumed body surrendered to the collective pulse of the god's noisy procession—a sanctioned rupture in the sober fabric of the polis, and the formalized chaos from which comedy itself would one day emerge.
noun
- A reveler, usually drunken or riotous.“1996: Festivals of Dionysus were often characterized by ritual license and revelry, including reversal of social roles, cross-dressing by boys and men . . ., drunken comasts in the streets, as well as widespread boisterousness and obscenity. — The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edition, p. 481.”