Definition of Orgiastic

1. Adjective. Used of frenzied sexual activity.

Similar to: Sexy
Derivative terms: Orgy, Orgy

2. Adjective. Used of riotously drunken merrymaking. "Orgiastic festivity"
Exact synonyms: Bacchanal, Bacchanalian, Bacchic, Carousing
Similar to: Drunk, Inebriated, Intoxicated
Derivative terms: Bacchanal, Bacchanal, Orgy, Orgy

Definition of Orgiastic

1. a. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, orgies.

Definition of Orgiastic

1. Adjective. Relating to an orgy; wild, uncontrolled. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Orgiastic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orgiastic

orgeat
orgeats
orgeis
orgel
orgia
orgiac
orgias
orgiast
orgiastic (current term)
orgiastically
orgiasts
orgic
orgies
orgillous
orgones
orgue
orgues
orgul
orgulity
orgulous
orgyia

Literary usage of Orgiastic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living: An Old Irish Saga by Kuno Meyer, Dindsenchas, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Scél Túan maic Cairill (1897)
"... the Dionysus cult— orgiastic mania the common root of Orphic and Celtic transformation and reincarnation beliefs—The agricultural origin of the Dionysus ..."

2. The Mythology of the Aryan Nations by George William Cox (1887)
"They also show that the new worship was orgiastic, involving a tumult and even frenzy of feeling by no means congenial to the ordinary Hellenic or Aryan ..."

3. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1891)
"is correct, then the mad dances and shouts, which are the orgiastic ... What, then, is the evidence for the assertion that these orgiastic rites were ..."

4. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1891)
"is correct, then the mad dances and shouts, which are the orgiastic ... What, then, is the evidence for the assertion that these orgiastic rites were ..."

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