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3 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: orgy n 1: any act of immoderate indulgence 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}]
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