Orgies
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( 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.
(2): ( n. pl.) Drunken revelry; a carouse.
(3): ( pl.) of Orgy
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
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.
