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UK
/ˌɔːdʒɪˈæstɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
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used of riotously drunken merrymaking
orgiastic festivity
a night of bacchanalian revelry
carousing bands of drunken soldiers - used of frenzied sexual activity
How To Use orgiastic In A Sentence
- That delights the band's publicist who has been telling us that this is a return to the era when album launches were hyper-expensive, orgiastic affairs that lasted all day and are still remembered.
- Look at you biting your knuckle orgiastically while your leather minion whips a defenseless Isabelle De Funès. Happy Birthday, Carroll Baker
- orgiastic festivity
- Not all critics felt the same as Walker or Ebert - Bret Easton Ellis praised Fight Club as ‘a wild, orgiastic pop masterpiece’ - but if audiences were offended, maybe they were supposed to be.
- I can imagine Whitman at the end of his life posting furiously, orgiastically. Adam Hanft: Do We Need Another Place to Kvetch? More Than You Realize
- Since alcohol and blood sacrifice were associated with the worship of the goddess, at times it contained an orgiastic element.
- They live over the mountains and they have dastardy orgiastic rites and eat babies sometimes. From the mouth of babes
- Hot hurricane action: water crashes furiously over the sea wall, palm trees whip back and forth in an orgiastic frenzy and street signs waggle suggestively in the wind.
- The sheer volume of sounds and flavors orgiastically mix harmonically in this album.
- Womb," the orgiastic religious festival of Aphrodite in Argos, where the Womb of the World was adored and symbolically fructified.1 by offering sacrifice, in this case, pigs? Archive 2008-05-01