Meanings
plural orgiasts
- One who attends an orgy.
The Sadean orgiast is intellectual and contortionist, a Laocoön entwined by his proliferating desires.
1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, New York: Vintage, →ISBN, →OL2 more examples
The cult of Cybele, which for the first time formally organized as a mystic society in Rome, but the orgiast frenzy clung to it at all times.
1895, Joseph Fitzgerald, transl., Mysteria: History of the Secret Doctrines and Mystic Rites of Ancient Religions and Medieval and Modern Secret Orders, Stockham, translation of original by Otto Henne am Rhyn, page 67Rasputin became instrumental in the naming of ministers, men whose qualifications were that they were not going to interfere with the cushy double life he led — as sainted adviser to the royal family and as accomplished orgiast.
1967 October 6, Gerald Weales, “Intimate History of a Royal Miscalculation”, in Life, volume 63, number 14, page 10Synonyms: orgy-goer
- idiomaticOne who is prone to excessive indulgence.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounOne who attends an orgy.
Origin
- Ancient Greekὀργιάζειν“to celebrate orgies”
- Ancient Greekὀργιαστής“attender or celebrator of an orgy”
- Englishorgiast
From Ancient Greek ὀργιαστής (orgiastḗs, “attender or celebrator of an orgy”), from Ancient Greek ὀργιάζειν (orgiázein, “to celebrate orgies”).
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Finnish orgioissa kävijä, orgioihin osallistuja
- orgioissa kävijäone who attends an orgy
- orgioihin osallistujaone who attends an orgy
French partouzard, partouzarde
- partouzardone who attends an orgy
- partouzardeone who attends an orgy
German Orgienteilnehmer
- Orgienteilnehmerone who attends an orgy
Polish uczestnik orgii, uczestniczka orgii
- uczestnik orgiione who attends an orgy
- uczestniczka orgiione who attends an orgy
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