Definition of Orges

Definition of Orges

Orgies, festivals among the Greeks and Orientals generally connected with the worship of nature divinities, in particular Demeter (q. v.), Dionysos (q. v.), and the Cabiri, celebrated with mystic rites and much licentious behaviour.

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Or"gies (?), n. pl.; sing. Orgy (&?;). [The singular is rarely used.] [F. orgie, orgies, L. orgia, pl., Gr. &?;; akin to &?; work. See Organ, and Work.]

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.

As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god,
Those priests high orgies held.

Drayton.

2. Drunken revelry; a carouse. B. Jonson. Tennyson.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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