orgiastic
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How to pronounce orgiastic in British English:
英 [ˌɔ:dʒiˈæstɪk]
How to pronounce orgiastic in American English:
美 [ˌɔrdʒiˈæstɪk]
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- Adjective:
- used of frenzied sexual activity
- used of riotously drunken merrymaking
单词词源
- orgiastic (adj.)
- 1690s, from Greek orgiastikos "fit for orgies, exciting," from orgiastes "one who celebrates orgies," from orgiazein "to celebrate orgies," from orgia (see orgy).
双语例句
- 1. The people of phrygia were accustomed to the orgiastic cult of cybele .
- 2. For progress , " the right-wing american jews who become orgiastic whenever israel kills and destroys " would have to be exposed as " israel 's enemies " , condemning the country they supposedly love to eternal war .
- 3. More than this , the sharing of confession enthusiasms can create an orgiastic sense of " oneness , " of the most intense intimacy with fellow confessors and of the dissolution of self into the great flow of the movement .
- 4. The undergraduate that 4 histories fasten is before final one evening all night orgiastic ; 4 people rose not to take an exam that day , look for a professor to beg for leniency then .
- 5. The orgiastic scenes at the fur rendezvous , when whites and indians ate like the wildest of savages side by side , provided good evidence for frederick jackson turner 's thesis proposed in 1893 that the wilderness had at first overpowered the europeans and made barbarians of them .