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Orgiastic

adjective
1.
Used of frenzied sexual activity.
2.
Used of riotously drunken merrymaking.  Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing.  "Carousing bands of drunken soldiers" , "Orgiastic festivity"





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"Orgiastic" Quotes from Famous Books



... more of a bewildered child; I cannot get used to this world, to procreation, to heredity, to sight, to hearing, the commonest things are a burthen. The prim, obliterated, polite surface of life, and the broad, bawdy and orgiastic—or maenadic—foundations, form a spectacle to which no habit reconciles me. R. L. Stevenson: Letters, ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James
... away his life in tearing Homeric rags to tatters and sewing them together again, rags that he himself was the first to filch from the poet's kingly robe. A third feels ill at ease when examining all the mysterious and orgiastic sides of antiquity: he makes up his mind once and for all to let the enlightened Apollo alone pass without dispute, and to see in the Athenian a gay and intelligent but nevertheless somewhat immoral Apollonian. What a deep breath he draws ...
— On the Future of our Educational Institutions • Friedrich Nietzsche


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