Definition of Orgiasts

1. orgiast [n] - See also: orgiast

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orgiasts

orgeat
orgeats
orgeis
orgel
orgia
orgiac
orgias
orgiast
orgiastic
orgiastically
orgiasts (current term)
orgic
orgies
orgillous
orgones
orgue
orgues
orgul
orgulity
orgulous
orgyia
oribatid
oribatids

Literary usage of Orgiasts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"In the daytime you led your noble orgiasts, crowned with fennel and poplar, through the highways, squeezing the big-cheeked serpents and lifting them over ..."

2. The World's Famous Orations by Francis Whiting Halsey (1906)
"In the daytime you led your noble orgiasts, crowned with fennel and poplar, through the highways, squeezing the big-cheeked serpents, and lifting them over ..."

3. Hellenic Civilization by George Willis Botsford (1915)
"By day you conducted through the streets the fair orgiasts crowned with wreaths of fennel and poplar, throttling the swollen-cheeked snakes and holding them ..."

4. The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of by Henry Hart Milman, James Murdock (1887)
"... still at times sent out into the Western world its troops of frantic orgiasts; and the Phrygian vied with the Isiac and Mithraic mysteries in its ..."

5. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1903)
"In the daytime you led your noble orgiasts, crowned with fennel and poplar, through the highways, squeezing the big-cheeked serpents and lifting them over ..."

6. The History of Christianity, from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of by Henry Hart Milman, James Murdock (1875)
"Phrygia, which was a kind of link between Greece and the remoter East, still at times sent out into the Western world its troops of frantic orgiasts; ..."

7. Orations from Homer to William McKinley by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1902)
"... howled so lustily—and I believe him! for don't suppose that he who speaks so loud is not a splendid howler 1 In the daytime yon led your noble orgiasts, ..."

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