orgies

[or·gy]

If you have an orgy of presents or snacks or even new ideas, you have so many it's almost obscene. In this figurative use, orgy means an event where there is just too much of a good thing!

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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.


n. pl.
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.

n. pl.
Drunken revelry; a carouse.

pl.
of Orgy


Orgies

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

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.

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