Orgies
[ɔ:dʒi:z]
Definition
(n. pl.) 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.
(n. pl.) Drunken revelry; a carouse.
(pl. ) of Orgy
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Revels, bacchanals, saturnalia, carousal, revelry, wassail, debauch, drunken bout.
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Examples
- This favoured tavern, sacred to the evening orgies of Mr. Lowten and his companions, was what ordinary people would designate a public-house. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Hitherto his orgies had always been confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and shattered, in the evening. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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