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Definition of Ithyphallic
1. a. Lustful; lewd; salacious; indecent; obscene.
Definition of Ithyphallic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the erect phallus that was carried in bacchic processions. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: by extension) lascivious or obscene. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ithyphallic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ithyphallic
Literary usage of Ithyphallic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metres of the Greeks and Romans: A Manual for Schools and Private Study by Eduard Munk (1844)
"The principal verse consists of a tetrameter dact. acat. with an ithyphallic,
sometimes perhaps combined- in the ..."
2. Proceedings by Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England), Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England). (1885)
"The objections to my reading of the name of the ithyphallic Horus could not be
more forcibly stated, nor by a more sound and judicious scholar, ..."
3. A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum by Samuel Birch, Charles Thomas Newton (1851)
"... that of the figure last described is high-crested ; 2. rev. seven Satyrs
revelling with drunken and obscene gestures ; on the left an ithyphallic figure ..."
4. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Henry Jackson (1890)
"The metre is ithyphallic, a mixture of iambics and pure ... Toi>) iambics as
opposed to the mixture of iambics and other verses in the ithyphallic and ..."
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