Ithyphallus

Quick meaning: Ithyphallus is a noun meaning (chiefly archaeology) A depiction of an erect penis.

Meaning

(chiefly archaeology) A depiction of an erect penis.

Example Sentences

At the first view indeed one would imagine that this Indian effigy was, especially from this application of it, meant for a kind of representation of a Phallus, or Ithyphallus […]

"First," he said deliberately, "whatever women see, they never think, imagine or conceive it save in terms of the stout, stiff-standing deities Ithyphallos and Penis Erectus. […] "

Priapus was the personified membrum virilex erectum; it is therefore logical that the physical characteristics of the ithyphallus were incorporated into the iconography of the god.

The Serpent that tempted Eve too was of the Chitterling kind, and yet it is recorded of him, that he was more subtle than any Beast of the Field. Even so are Chitterlings: Nay, to this very Hour they hold in some Universities that this same Tempter was the Chitterling call'd Ithyphallus, or Standing, into which was transform'd bawdy Priapus, Arch-Seducer of Females in Paradise, that is, a Garden in Greek.

Word Forms

• ithyphalli

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include phallus, phallusy, priapus, phallism, phallophoria, hymen.

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