Crossword-Solution: ORGIA
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ORGIA | anagram | AGRIO, GIRAO |
We have 1 clue for the answer “ORGIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ritual ceremony: Var. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ORGIA (5)
Assuming a nature-implanted tendency, we see that like human sacrifice it was held to be the most acceptable offering to the God-goddess in the Orgia or sacred ceremonies, a something set apart for peculiar worship.
Qualiter exululat Bromius, Bromiique caterva, Orgia cantantes in Echionio Aracyntho, Dum tremit attonitus vitreis Asopus in undis, Et procul ipse cava responsat rupe Cithaeron.
These antique obsequies were undoubtedly affecting; but the return of the mourners from the burning is the most appalling orgia, without the horror of crime, of which I have ever heard.
But it has been said that an extract from Avienus will help to explain it-- ----"Hic chorus ingens Faminei cœtus pulchri colit orgia Bacchi.
Solus Hyperboreas glacies Tanaimque nivalem arvaque Rhipaeis numquam viduata pruinis lustrabat, raptam Eurydicen atque inrita Ditis 205 dona querens; spretae Ciconum quo munere matres inter sacra deum nocturnique orgia Bacchi discerptum latos iuvenem sparsere per agros.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1971).