Definitions For Ithyphallic

Noun

ITHYPHALLIC (plural ITHYPHALLICs) A poem or song in an #adjective, ithyphallic metre. A lascivious or obscene poem or song.

Translations

Adjective

(historical, Ancient Rome) Of or pertaining to the erect#adjective, erect phallus that was carry#verb, carried in bacchic processions. (specifically) Of a poem or song: having the metre of an ode sing, sung in honour of the bacchic phallus. {{quote-book, en, author=w:johann gottfried jakob hermann, [johann gottfried jakob] hermann, chapter=Of Ithyphallic Verse, translator=John Seager, title=Hermann’s Elements of the Doctrine of Metres, Abridged and Translated into English, location=London, publisher=Printed by w:abraham john valpy, a[braham] j[ohn] valpy,{{nb..., Red Lion Court, Fleet Street}}; sold by w:longman, longman & co. [et al.], year=1830, section=§ 131, page=29, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=wAvKQJBqxxEC&pg=PA29, oclc=614391535, passage=Ithyphallic verse, which, because it consists of one periodic order, ought to have all pure trochees, and admits no other foot, except a tribrach, {{...}} and that scarcely in the last place, because the rhythm ought to be more remiss at the end, is used chiefly by lyric poets in place of an epode.}} {{quote-book, en, author=Edward Munk [i.e., {{w, Eduard Munk}}], chapter=Rhythms, the Fundamental Foot of which is Tripletimed; the Double or Trochaic-Iambic Class, translators=w:Charles Beck; w:cornelius conway felton, c[ornelius] c[onway] felton, title=The Metres of the Greeks and Romans. A Manual for Schools and Private Study. Translated from the German, location=Boston, Mass., publisher=James Munroe and Company, year=1844, section=part II (The Application of the Laws of Rhythm to Poetry by the Greeks and Romans), section I (Simple Rhythms), page=70, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=SxRgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA70, oclc=458785631, passage={{w, Archilochus}} and other writers of epodes frequently use the ithyphallic in distich composition, and in asynartete verses as the closing rhythm. The ithyphallic occurs sometimes in the beginning, or middle, {{...}}}} Of or pertaining to an upward point#verb, pointing, erect penis; (specifically) of an artistic depiction of a deity or other figure#noun, figure: possessing an erect penis. : {{synonyms, en, priapic, q1=one sense}} (by extension) lascivious, lascivious, obscene. : {{synonyms, en, Thesaurus:obscene}} (poetry) Pertaining to a metrical combination of two trochees followed by one spondee.

Related terms

ithyphallophobia ithyphallus

Translations

Catalan: itifàl·lic, m French: ithyphallique German: ithyphallisch Greek: ιθυφαλλικός : Ancient Greek: ἰθυφαλλικός, m Italian: itifallico Latin: ithyphallicus, m, ithyphallica, f, ithyphallicum, n Norwegian: bakkantisk, {{l, no, med}} {{l, no, erigert}} {{l, no, penis}} Portuguese: itifálico Russian: итифалли́ческий Sanskrit: ऊर्ध्वरेत Spanish: itifálico, m Thai: ที่มีอวัยวะเพศชายแข็งตัว (têe mee awaiwá pâyt chaai kăeng dtua) {{trans-top-also, lascivious, obscene, lascivious, obscene}} Italian: itifallico Norwegian: sprengkåt Russian: развра́тный, непристо́йный, похотли́вый {{qualifier, lascivious, lustful}} Thai: ลามก, อนาจาร

Etymology

(sense 2) found in london, UK, dating to the roman#adjective, roman or post-medieval, medieval period{{refn, group=n, name=n1, From the collection of the {{w, Museum of London}} in london, england, UK.}}]]