Orgy \Or"gy\, n.; pl. Orgies.
A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Orgy \Or"gy\, n.; sing. Orgies. [F. orgie, orgies, L. orgia,
pl., Gr. ?; akin to ? work. See Organ, and Work.]
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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.
Note: [The singular is rarely used in this sense.]
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As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god,
Those priests high orgies held. --Drayton.
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2. Wild, drunken, or licentious revelry; an uninhibited
carouse. --B. Jonson. --Tennyson.
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3. A series of sexual activities involving more than two
couples in a group.
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4. Hence: An event characterized by unrestrained indulgence
in passion; as, an orgy of buying of internet stocks.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
orgy
n 1: any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an
emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending" [syn: binge,
splurge]
2: secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities
involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual
activity
3: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and
promiscuity [syn: debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot,
bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]
WordNet (r) 2.0
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "orgy":
Saturnalia, abandon, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat,
bender, binge, bout, bust, carousal, carouse, celebration,
compotation, craze, debauch, debauchery, debauchment, delirium,
dissipation, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, ecstasy,
escapade, fire and fury, fling, free living, frenzy, furor, furore,
fury, guzzle, high living, hysteria, intoxication, jag,
killing pace, lark, licentiousness, madness, orgasm,
overindulgence, party, passion, ploy, potation, pub-crawl, rage,
rampage, randan, randy, rapture, ravishment, revel, riotous living,
saturnalia, soak, splurge, spree, symposium, tear, tearing passion,
toot, towering rage, transport, wassail, wingding
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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