Ithyphallic

Word ITHYPHALLIC
Character 11
Hyphenation ith y phal lic
Pronunciations /ˌɪθɪˈfælɪk/

Definitions and meanings of "Ithyphallic"

What do we mean by ithyphallic?

Of or relating to the phallus carried in the ancient festival of Bacchus. adjective

Having the penis erect. Used of graphic and sculptural representations. adjective

Lascivious; salacious. adjective

Pertaining to or characterized by an ithyphallus, or the ceremonies associated with its use as a religious symbol, etc.

Hence Grossly indecent; obscene.

In ancient prosody, sung in phallic processions; specifically, noting a group of three trochees or a period containing such a group.

Lustful; lewd; salacious; indecent; obscene. adjective

Of or pertaining to the erect phallus that was carried in bacchic processions. adjective

Lascivious or obscene. adjective

A poem or song in an ithyphallic metre.

A lascivious or obscene poem or song.

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The word "ithyphallic" in example sentences

And then you follow that with the absurd satire of Humanism -- nihilist Nietszche prancing on in goathide leggings with an ithyphallic cock dancing in the air, bringing existential panic, but saying "Whatever doesn't kill me, makes me stronger" -- bara boom. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

The real Pan has hairs upon his balls, an ithyphallic god. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

A pamphlet of 1639 showed Robin as a horned, hoofed, ithyphallic satyr, leading witches' revels in the company of a black dog and an owl. ❋ Jan (2008)

Though an ithyphallic god of lust, Legba was also androgynous. ❋ Jan (2008)

Either image would appeal to the Surrealist Ernst, as comic in a bawdy sense, as shocking to a correct, middle-class audience — in the Dada/Surrealist mode, and, as evocative in a Freudian spirit, of repressed meditations on the afterparts and on the ithyphallic form of the elephant itself. ❋ Benge, Glenn F. (2005)

But the first, dark, ithyphallic God whom men had once known so tremendous — Struthers had no use for Him. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He wanted men once more to refer the sensual passion of love sacredly to the great dark God, the ithyphallic, of the first dark religions. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The god Min is ithyphallic and his sign is a standing god with a horizontal stroke. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Carnelian's ugly needle of beef-bouillon-colored silica glass, entangled in a dozen skyways, overwhelms the stately old City Hall, while the 400-story ithyphallic monstrosity that houses Galapharma seems on the point of crushing the Queen's Quay Terminal. ❋ May, Julian (2001)

(I'd only realize later that Rampart would have transferred its Toronto headquarters to the ithyphallic monolith on the waterfront that had once housed Galapharma.) ❋ May, Julian (2001)

Fertility ceremonies, some more embarrassingly ithyphallic than others, lurk offstage. ❋ Green, Peter (1980)

Absolutely Existent to apostrophising the sun or an ithyphallic bull they have made an immense progress in art and religion, for now their idols represent some specific and beneficent function in nature, something propitious to ideal life and to its determinate expression. ❋ George Santayana (1907)

[FN#338] Plutarch seems to be confounding Osiris with Menu, the god of generation, who is generally represented in an ithyphallic form. ❋ Unknown (1895)

*** Apû was the Panopolis or Chemmis of the Greeks, the town of the god Mîn or ithyphallic Khimû. ❋ M. L. McClure (1881)

No ithyphallic images or figures of gods have been found. ❋ Crawford Howell Toy (1877)

The most interesting figure of this character is Priapos, an ithyphallic deity of uncertain origin; his special connection was with ❋ Crawford Howell Toy (1877)

In the Roman gardens also were ithyphallic figures which appear to bear witness to a survival of the growth-demon idea, or to usages which originated in the growth-demon idea, and were perpetuated traditionally without knowledge of the original meaning. ❋ William Graham Sumner (1875)

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