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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Orgy  \Or"gy\,  n.;  pl  {Orgies}. 
  A  frantic  revel;  drunken  revelry.  See  {Orgies} 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Orgies  \Or"gies\,  n.  pl.;  sing.  {Orgy}. 
 
  Note:  [The  singular  is  rarely  used.]  [F.  orgie,  orgies,  L. 
  orgia,  pl.,  Gr  ?;  akin  to  ?  work  See  {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. 




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