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▪ I. orgasm, n.|ˈɔːgæz(ə)m|
[ad. mod.L. orgasmus, a. Gr. type *ὀργασµός, f. ὀργά-ειν to swell as with moisture, be excited or eager. Cf. F. orgasme ‘an extreame fit or expression of anger’ (Cotgr. 1611).]
1. Immoderate or violent excitement of feeling; rage, fury; a paroxysm of excitement or rage.
[1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 145 It may be onely some fast retention or sudden compression in the Orgasmus or fury of their lust.] a1763Shenstone Economy i. 159 Vain, ah vain the hope Of future peace, this orgasm uncontroul'd! 1806W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. IV. 604 So the poetic orgasm, when excited, glows but for a time. 1875Lowell Wordsworth Prose Wks. 1890 IV. 365 He saw man such as he can only be when he is vibrated by the orgasm of a national emotion.
2. Physiol.
a. Excitement or violent action in an organ or part, accompanied with turgescence; spec. the height of venereal excitement in coition.
1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xix. 809 When there appears an Orgasm of the humours, we rather fly to bleeding as more safe. 1771T. Percival Ess. (1777) I. 200 A kind of nervous orgasm, or spasm on the vitals. 1802Med. Jrnl. VIII. 236 Many viviparous animals are subject to periodical venereal orgasm. 1899Hutchinson's Archives Surg. X. 129 The state of vascular turgescence which attends the sexual orgasm.
b. attrib.
1936H. M. & A. Stone Marriage Manual viii. 276 Orgasm incapacity is more frequent. 1949Orgone Energy Bull. Apr. 94 Orgasm reflex, the unitary involuntary contraction and expansion of the total organism in the acme of the sexual embrace. 1965P. & E. Kronhausen Sexual Response in Women ii. i. 64 The kind of ‘orgasm anxiety’ to which our informant referred is very common among women. 1967P. S. Catling Experiment xxxvi. 228 You might have expected higher I.Q. levels to mean..an enhanced orgasm yield. 1968R. Kyle Love Lab. xxiv. 322 With his help, she had broken through into orgasm country. 1973S. Fisher Female Orgasm i. 31 The amount of time spent by the husband stimulating his wife does not correlate with her orgasm frequency.
Hence orˈgasmal a. = orgasmic a.
1964Brit. Jrnl. Med. Psychol. XXXVII. 63 Failure to achieve normal adult heterosexual adjustment was shown..by frigidity, and sometimes promiscuity with orgasmal disappointment. 1969C. Allen Textbk. Psychosexual Disorders (ed. 2) iv. 71 Castration seems to have little effect on the desire or orgasmal capacity of the woman.
▪ II. ˈorgasm, v.
[f. the n.]
To experience a sexual orgasm.
1973S. Fisher Female Orgasm vii. 207 It often takes me as much as 15 minutes of stimulation before I can orgasm. 1974New Direction IV. iv. 5/3 He stroked my clitoris until I orgasmed. 1977Observer 25 Sept. 23/7 Approved wisdom has it that women should orgasm from that which achieves male orgasm and reproduction—penile thrusting; not from direct clitoral stimulation. |