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Definition of Priapus
1. Noun. (classical mythology) god of male procreative power and guardian of gardens and vineyards.
Definition of Priapus
1. Proper noun. (Greek god) The god of procreation, and guardian of gardens and vineyards; personification of the phallus. ¹
2. Noun. An image of the god Priapus, or of a penis. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Priapus
1. a representation of the phallus [n -PUSES or -PI]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Priapus
Literary usage of Priapus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"And rude priapus, oh whose temples ware GoM ivy's leaves, resolv'd to find ...
A VOW TO priapus. IF by those oaks with roving step you wind, An image fresh ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1892)
"Knight's first published work was 'An Account of the Remains of the Worship of
priapus lately existing in Isernia ; to which is added a Discourse on the ..."
3. Phallism: A Description of the Worship of Lingam-yoni in Various Parts of by Hargrave Jennings (1889)
"Herodotus and the Bacchic Orgies —priapus in Rome and Greece — Maachah a Worshipper
of priapus -—Horace's Satire on priapus— ..."
4. A System of Ancient and Mediaeval Geography for the Use of Schools and Colleges by Charles Anthon (1871)
"will be into, first, the coast of the Propontis, from the headland and town of
priapus on the west, where the Hellespont commences, ..."
5. Auction Prices of Books: A Representative Record Arranged in Alphabetical by Luther Samuel Livingston (1905)
"Mor., ge (priapus plate perfect; several margins cut off and mended, slightly wormed
... (priapus plate mutilated, lacking last leaf; David Garrick's copy, ..."
6. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1887)
"THE WORSHIP OF priapus AMONG THE ... are worshipers of priapus, which is known
amongst them, not as Baal Peor, or Peor Aphis, but by the name of Slo-caw, ..."
7. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, by John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"It was from this circumstance, that the Greeks and Romans assigned to priapus
the office of presiding over their ... A figure of priapus, engraved by ..."
8. Specimens of the Classic Poets: In a Chronological Series from Homer to by Charles Abraham Elton (1814)
"A VOW TO priapus. OH goatherd! wind adown that village road, Where oaks are growing.
Thou wilt find beyond A new-carved fig-tree image. Though three-legg'd, ..."
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