Definition of "orgie"

While Mr. Justice Lowe's servant was spurring into town at a pace which made the hollow road resound, and struck red flashes from the stones, up the river, at the Mills, Mistress Mary Matchwell was celebrating a sort of orgie.

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

He became the central figure in a nation of frenzied speculators who made the so-called “Kaffir Circus” the wildest financial orgie in the history of the world.

1897, The Review of Reviews, volume 16, page 19