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Orgies
Pronunciation : Or"gies
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Note: [The singular is rarely used.] Etym: [F. orgie, orgies, L. orgia, pl., Gr. Organ, and Work.]
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. As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god, Those priests high orgies held. Drayton.
2. Drunken revelry; a carouse. B. Jonson. Tennyson.
pl.; sing. Orgy (.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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