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Priapus|praɪˈeɪpəs|
[a. L. Priāpus, a. Gr. Πρίᾱπος.]
1. The Greek and Roman god of procreation; hence, also, of gardens, vineyards, etc. (in which his statues were placed).
1508Dunbar Gold. Targe 118 Thare was the god of gardingis, Priapus. 1608Shakes. Per. iv. vi. 4 Shee's able to freze the god Priapus, and vndoe a whole generation. 1651Stanley Poems 46 Satyrs Priapusses in mourning weeds. 1870Rossetti Jenny, Let offerings nicely plac'd But hide Priapus to the waist, And whoso looks on him shall see An eligible deity.
2. A statue or image of the god Priapus; often placed in gardens to protect them from depredators or as a scarecrow.
1632Shirley Ball iv. i, Thou wot stop a breach in a mudde wall, Or serve for a Priapus in the garden to Fright away crowes. 1633Marmion Fine Companion v. i, Lack. How doe I looke..? Cro. Very dreadfully: like a Citizen in a fray, as fearefull as Priapus in a garden. 1743Fielding Jos. Andrews i. ii. 1746Francis tr. Horace, Sat. i. viii. 4 The joiner doubting, or to shape us, Into a stool, or a Priapus, At length resolved, for reasons wise, Into a god to bid us rise. 1756C. Smart tr. Horace, Sat. i. viii. (1826) II. 69.
3. A representation of the male generative organ; a phallus.
b. A drinking-vessel of phallic shape.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 79 Two Phalli, or Priapi (huge Images of the priuie part of a man). 1693Tate in Dryden's Juvenal ii. 143 Another in a Glass-Priapus swills, While twisted Gold his platted Tresses fills. 1705Addison Italy, Rome 324 Urns, Lamps, Lachrymary Vessels, Priapus's.
4. transf.
a. The generative capacity or function.
b. Med. and Path. The male genitals; esp. the virile organ in a state of erection.
1637T. Morton N. Eng. Canaan (1883) 205 This beast [Beaver] is of a masculine vertue for the advancement of Priapus. 1727–41Chambers Cycl., Priapus, a term some⁓times applied to the genital parts of men. 1811in Hooper Med. Dict. 1857in Dunglison Dict. Med.
†5. A kind of holothurian. [F. priape de mer.]
1765Univ. Mag. XXXVII. 129/1 They have two holes as the priapuses.
Hence † Priˈapian (also as n.), † Priˈapish adjs., of, relating or belonging to Priapus, lewd; obscene; priˈapiform a., of phallic shape.
1598Marston Pygmal., Sat., Prayse of precedent Poem, The Salaminian titillations, Which tickle vp our leud Priapians. 1872T. G. Thomas Dis. Women (ed. 3) 37 Called priapiform pessaries. 1530Tindale Answ. More iv. ii. Wks. (1573) 320/1 That filthy priapishe confession which ye spew in the eare. |