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Definition of Orgiastic
1. Adjective. Used of frenzied sexual activity.
2. Adjective. Used of riotously drunken merrymaking. "Orgiastic festivity"
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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