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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
orgy \or"gy\, n.; pl. orgies.
   a frantic revel; drunken revelry. see orgies
   1913 webster
see also:
orgies 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
orgy \or"gy\, n.; sing. orgies. f. orgie, orgies, l. orgia,
   pl., gr. ?; akin to ? work. see organ, and work.
   1913 webster
   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. usually in the plural form.

   note: the singular is rarely used in this sense.
         1913 webster

               as when, with crowned cups, unto the elian god,
               those priests high orgies held.    --drayton.
         1913 webster

   2. wild, drunken, or licentious revelry; an uninhibited
      carouse. --b. jonson. --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   3. a series of sexual activities involving more than two
      couples in a group.
      pjc

   4. hence: an event characterized by unrestrained indulgence
      in passion; as, an orgy of buying of internet stocks.
      pjc
see also:
orgies organ work 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
orgy
     n 1: any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an
          emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending" syn: binge,
           splurge
     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
see also:
binge splurge debauch debauchery saturnalia riot 
bacchanal bacchanalia drunken revelry 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
68 moby thesaurus words for "orgy":
   saturnalia, abandon, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat,
   bender, binge, bout, bust, carousal, carouse, celebration,
   compotation, craze, debauch, debauchery, debauchment, delirium,
   dissipation, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, ecstasy,
   escapade, fire and fury, fling, free living, frenzy, furor, furore,
   fury, guzzle, high living, hysteria, intoxication, jag,
   killing pace, lark, licentiousness, madness, orgasm,
   overindulgence, party, passion, ploy, potation, pub-crawl, rage,
   rampage, randan, randy, rapture, ravishment, revel, riotous living,
   saturnalia, soak, splurge, spree, symposium, tear, tearing passion,
   toot, towering rage, transport, wassail, wingding





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