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ithyphallic, a. and n.|ɪθɪˈfælɪk|
Also 7 -ique.
[ad. L. ithyphallic-us, ad. Gr. ἰθυϕαλλικός, f. ἰθύϕαλλος the phallus carried in procession at the festivals of Bacchus, f. ἰθύς straight + ϕαλλός phallus; in neut. as n., ithyphallicum sc. carmen, a poem in the measure of the hymns to Priapus.]
A. adj.
a. Pertaining to or associated with the phallus carried in procession at the Bacchic festivals; spec. composed in the metre of the Bacchic hymns (the trochaic dimeter brachycatalectic).
By ancient writers applied also to several other metres, e.g. the Phalæcian, ending with three trochees; Selden applies it to the Versus Priapeius.
1795S. Parr in E. H. Barker Parriana (1829) II. 595 Ithyphallic verse. 1818R. P. Knight Symbolic Lang. (1876) 98 Ithyphallic ceremonies. 1830tr. Aristophanes, Wasps 122 note, The metre..is an asynartete of Iamb. and Troch. Dim. Brach., or Ithyphallic. 1854Badham Halieut. 510 The Athenians received Demetrius..went out to meet him with ithyphallic hymns. 1898Edin. Rev. July 62 Allying themselves with music in the dithyramb and with the ithyphallic procession.
b. Grossly indecent, obscene.
a1864Chr. Examiner (Webster), An ithyphallic audacity that insults what is most sacred and decent among men.
B. n. A poem in ithyphallic metre; also, a poem of licentious or indecent character.
1614Selden Titles Hon. 117 Wanton Catullus, comparing a heauie fellow..to a log, hath this Ithyphallique: Talis iste meus Stupor nil videt, nihil audit. 1778Apthorpe Preval. Chr. 383 The pæon was peculiar to Apollo, the ithyphallic to Bacchus. 1822Byron Vis. Judgm. Pref., I omit noticing some..Ithyphallics. a1876M. Collins Pen Sketches (1879) II. 130 Talk of ithyphallics! Byron might well blush at the noyades and lepers of this later time.
So ithyˈphallus, an erect phallus.
1889in Cent. Dict. 1967Listener 28 Sept. 401/2 The fathers..exhibit their ithyphalluses. 1968Punch 27 Mar. 469/3 The spike (Laius's sword) Jocasta steadily presses through her womb is replaced by a golden ithyphallus ten foot tall. |