orgies

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

OR'GIES, noun plural [Gr. to swell; fury; Latin orgia.] Frantic revels at the feast in honor of Bacchus, or the feast itself. This feast was held in the night; hence nocturnal orgies
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