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Definition of Orgiast
1. one who participates in an orgy [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orgiast
| orgeat orgeats orgeis orgel orgia orgiac orgias orgiast (current term) orgiastic orgiastically | orgiasts orgic orgies orgillous orgones orgue orgues orgul orgulity orgulous |
Literary usage of Orgiast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Dionysos, from orgiast Thrace, or, as was then held, from the mystic East, invaded
the shrine, importing, or at least accentuating, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Dionysos, from orgiast Thrace, or, as was then held, from the mystic East, invaded
the shrine, importing, or at least accentuating, elements of enthusiasm ..."
3. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"... but because he has more of plain humanity in him—more, at least, of the earth,
of the faun, of the orgiast; and he gives us their poetry. ..."
4. Mysteria: History of the Secret Doctrines and Mystic Rites of Ancient by Otto Henne am Rhyn (1895)
"The cult of Cybele was for the first time formally organized as a mystic society
in Rome, but the orgiast frenzy ..."
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