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单词 phallephoric
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phallephoricadj.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek ϕαλληϕόρια , -ic suffix.
Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek ϕαλληϕόρια festival of Dionysus in which a phallus was carried in procession ( < ϕαλλός penis (see phallos n.) + -ϕόρος bearing (see -phore comb. form) + -ια -ia suffix2) + -ic suffix. Compare phallophoria n. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (fælĭfǫ·rik) /fælɪˈfɒrɪk/.
Obsolete. rare.
Relating to, or involving the carrying of, phallic emblems. Cf. phallophoria n.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > other seasons and feasts > classical > [adjective] > Venus Erycina
phallephoric1876
1876 A. Wilder in R. P. Knight's Symbolic Lang. 55 (note) Venus Erycina..worshipped by the Roman women, who every first of April made a phallephoric procession to her temple.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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