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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of an orgy.
  2. adj. Arousing or causing unrestrained emotion; frenzied.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining to or characteristic of the orgies or mystic festivities of the ancient Greeks, Phrygians, etc., especially those in honor of Bacchus or of Cybele; characterized by or consisting in wild, unnatural, impure, or cruel revelry; frantically enthusiastic: as, orgiastic rites; orgiastic worship. See orgy.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Relating to an orgy; wild, uncontrolled.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, orgies.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. used of riotously drunken merrymaking
  2. adj. used of frenzied sexual activity

Etymologies

  1. Greek orgiastikos, from orgiastēs, celebrant of orgies, from orgiazein, to celebrate orgies, from orgia, orgies; see orgy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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