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orgies 音标拼音: ['ɔrdʒiz] Orgy \ Or" gy\, n.; pl. { Orgies}. A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See { Orgies} [ 1913 Webster]
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]
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