单词 | phallophoria |
释义 | phallophorian. The carrying of a phallus, esp. as part of a festival of Dionysus in ancient Greece; an instance of this, a phallophoric procession or ritual.The Greek word ϕαλληϕόρια is a neuter plural, but the English form phallophoria is usually understood as singular. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > other seasons and feasts > classical > [noun] > Dionysus > carrying of phallus phallophoria1613 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. iii. 471 Greece, whose Phallus, Phallogogia, Ithiphalli, Phallophoria, and Phallophon issued out of this sink. 1903 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 23 322 We have established..that a phallophoria formed a part of Dionysiac mysteries. 1929 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 59 191 The phallophoria are also found in connection with the other pine-god Osiris. 1996 Shakespeare Q. 47 10 This is probably due..to the derivation of comic drama from the phallophoria, the fertility-invoking phallic procession. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1613 |
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