The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ithyphallic \Ith`y*phal"lic\, a. [L. ithyphallicus, fr. ithyphallus, Gr. ?, membrum virile erectum, or a figure thereof carried in the festivals of Bacchus.] Lustful; lewd; salacious; indecent; obscene.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "poem in ithyphallic meter," from Greek ithyphallos "phallos carried in the festivals," from ithys "straight" + phallos "erect penis" (see phallus). As an adjective from 1795. The meter was that of the Bacchic hymns, which were sung in the rites during which such phalloses were carried. Thus, in Victorian times, the word also meant "grossly indecent" (1864).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to the erect phallus that was carried in bacchic processions. 2 (context by extension English) lascivious or obscene.
Wikipedia
Ithyphallic is the fifth studio album by American technical death metal band Nile. It was released on July 17, 2007 through Nuclear Blast, in both standard and digipak formats. It is the band's first album released on Nuclear Blast, since signing with them in May 2006. It is also the band's first album since Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka not to feature notes explaining the context of the lyrics. 1000 limited edition copies of the album were released in a pyramid-shaped box containing the disc, several images, a certificate of ownership and a scroll containing the lyrics and liner notes from the album. The cover art of this album depicts a statue of the god of fertility " Min", being erected by Egyptian slaves.
Usage examples of "ithyphallic".
It was his organ of copulation her body craved, the Latinate folds between her legs that stirred him to ithyphallic meter.
The suit featured an undulating whiplike tail and a glistening ithyphallic codpiece with obscene motility.
The ithyphallic attendant of Dionysus leaps with enthusiasm, his left arm high in the air, his right resting on his buttock.
Apu was the Panopolis or Chemmis of the Greeks, the town of the god Min or ithyphallic Khimu.
Comprise, rendered for effect into shaggy ithyphallic brutes with small red eyes.
At last we reached the ithyphallic tribute to the Father of Our Country.
Rampart would have transferred its Toronto headquarters to the ithyphallic monolith on the waterfront that had once housed Galapharma.
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As Father Kircher has demonstrated, had the tower reached its peak, its excessive weight would have made the earth’s axis rotate ninety degrees and maybe more, and our poor globe, instead of having an ithyphallic crown pointing upward, would have found itself with a sterile appendix, a limp mentula, a monkey tail flopping downward, a Shekhinah lost in the dizzying abyss of an antarctic Malkhut, a flaccid hieroglyph for penguins.