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Webster 1913 Edition
Orgy
Or′gy
,Noun.
sing.
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Orgies
1.
A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry. Usually in the plural form.
[The singular is rarely used in this sense.]
As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god,
Those priests high
Those priests high
orgies
held. Drayton.
2.
Wild, drunken, or licentious revelry; an uninhibited carouse.
B. Jonson.
Tennyson.
Definition 2024
orgy
orgy
English
Noun
orgy (plural orgies)
- A revel involving indiscriminate group sexual activity.
- Excessive indulgence in a specified activity.
Derived terms
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Translations
sexual group activity
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excessive activity