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‖ membrum virile, n. arch. or euphem.|ˌmɛmbrʊm vɪˈriːleɪ, ˌmɛmbrʊm viˈraɪlɪ, ˌmɛmbrəm virˈiːleɪ|
[L., lit. ‘male member’: see member n., virile a.
In classical L. membrum was used both alone and with other adjectives in this sense.]
The penis.
a1732P. Skippon Jrnl. in A. & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. VI. (1732) A Frenchman, that seeing the postboy fall down dead with the extremity of cold, opened his codpiece, and rub'd his Membrum virile with snow, till he recovered him. 1833Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci., Penis,..Membrum virile,..male organ. 1858R. G. Mayne Expos. Lex. Med. Sci. (1860) 928/2 Phallalgia.., term for pain in the membrum virile. 1982N.Y. Times 27 Sept. c16/1 Monica is fond of talking about, though not experiencing, what they choose to call the membrum virile until they realize that it might be ‘unscholarly’ to assume that all membra are virile. 1991J. Barnes Talking it Over v. 64 There we stood, two rivals as yet quite unaware they were rivals, each grasping his membrum virile—should I offer the groom some tips as to its deployment? |