English

Noun

orgiast ‎(plural orgiasts)

1. One who celebrates orgies
   • 1895, Joseph Fitzgerald (translator), Mysteria: History of the Secret Doctrines and Mystic Rites of Ancient Religions and Medieval and Modern Secret Orders, Stockham, translation of original by Otto Henne am Rhyn, page 67:

     The cult of Cybele, which for the first time formally organized as a mystic society in Rome, but the orgiast frenzy clung to it at all times.

   • 1967 October 6, Weales, Gerald, “Intimate History of a Royal Miscalculation”, in Life, volume 63, number 14, page 10:

     Rasputin became instrumental in the naming of ministers, men whose qualifications were that they were not going to interfere with the cushy double life he led — as sainted adviser to the royal family and as accomplished orgiast.

   • 1990, Paglia, Camille, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, New York: Vintage, ISBN 9780679735793, OL 24749554M:

     The Sadean orgiast is intellectual and contortionist, a Laocoön entwined by his proliferating desires.

Related terms

• orgy
• orgiastic