orgiastic
5.(Greek mythology) a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus.
6.an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus).
7.a night of bacchanalian revelry; carousing bands of drunken soldiers; orgiastic festivity.
8.The god of wine and of an orgiastic religion celebrating the power and fertility of nature.
9.In his reform, Zoroaster did not, as some scholars would have it, abolish all animal sacrifice but simply the orgiastic and intoxicating rites that accompanied it.
10.In the prevailing religious tradition, Zoroaster probably found that the practice of sacrificing cattle, combined with the consumption of intoxicating drinks (haoma), led to orgiastic excess.
