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Meanings of orgiastic in English

Used of riotously drunken merrymaking.

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Usage of orgiastic in English
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The populace drifted here, into complete indifference, there, into orgiastic forms of worship.
Europe and the Faith / "Sine auctoritate nulla vita"
2
Servants, stationed throughout this orgiastic celebration-ofcourse there would be.
Ruthless
3
When the Minotaur appears in the studio, the hitherto relaxed mood becomes fiercely orgiastic.
The Irish Times
4
And he had intermittently dozed during the progress of the demonstration and its orgiastic sequel.
The Old Wives' Tale
5
The kind of orgiastic existences that Roma was famous for in Nero's time, I mean.
Roma eterna
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Even the Dry-towners shunned the orgiastic rituals of Kamaina.
The Door Through Space
7
This orgiastic intercourse between the corrupt and the criminal was not confined to one country.
After the Rain : how the West lost the East
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Not even the dead woman's blood was visible in that orgiastic mass of writhing flesh.
Mutated
9
Witness the post-World.com orgiastic castigation of avaricious CEO's.
Financial Crime and Corruption
10
Apart from the orgiastic goings-on at the Comte de Giverney's notorious house parties there was high-stakes gaming.
Ruthless
11
Having beaten both McDonald and Fenwick in one impossibly smooth movement, the finish was an orgiastic formality.
The Guardian
12
Joyous, voluptuous, androgynous, he yet remains the god who brought strange gifts and orgiastic rites to men.
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Flowers is the definitive Kemp work: orgiastic, violent, teetering constantly on the verge of bathos, and thoroughly homosexual.
The Guardian
14
One adviser characterized the plan as "orgiastic, Wagnerian."
One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b...
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All followed by orgiastic celebration-bonfireglow and the cries of women in wild orgasm on a surf backdrop.
Woken furies
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My love will even survive a disappointing exit today against decadent, orgiastic sexual maniac Victor Troiki of Serbia.
The Guardian
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Orgiastic through the time