Ithyphallic

Quick meaning: Ithyphallic is an adjective meaning (by extension) Lascivious, obscene.

Meaning

(by extension) Lascivious, obscene.

More Meanings

1. (poetry) Pertaining to a metrical combination of two trochees followed by one spondee.
2. A poem or song in an ithyphallic metre.
3. A lascivious or obscene poem or song.
4. Of or pertaining to an upward pointing, erect penis; (specifically) of an artistic depiction of a deity or other figure: possessing an erect penis.
5. (historical, Ancient Rome) Of or pertaining to the erect phallus that was carried in bacchic processions.

Example Sentences

Hence the ubiquity of Priapus himself as a sculptural representative of the generative principle, populated the Roman gardens, assertive in ithyphallic pose.

Phthas, the inscription in phonetic hieroglyphs Ptah, in close-fitting dress, with the feet joined together, leaning on the platform consisting of four steps[…]. Also dwarfish and ithyphallic as in the temple at Memphis[…].

The phallic symbolism of the finger has long been popularly used. The middle finger is commonly held up as an ithyphallic insult, as is the thumb in the sign of the fig. The ancient Romans called the middle finger impudicus, "lewd."

[I]t is specially desirable to be able to discern the difference […] between the "εὐνῇ καὶ φιλότητι" or "φιλότητι καὶ εὐνῇ μιγῆναι" of the Iliad and Odyssey, and an ithyphallic audacity that insults what is most sacred and decent among men.

Word Forms

• ithyphallics

Synonyms for ithyphallic

Depending on context, synonyms include adult, bawdy, cheeky, dirty, indecent, filthy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include phallical, phallic, phallologic, bacchantic, bacchic, ectophallic.

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