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- adjective mythology Of or relating to
Priapus or Priapos (Ancient Greek:Πρίαπος ), a minorrustic fertility god ,protector oflivestock , fruit plants, gardens, andmale genitalia . - noun poetry A kind of
hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of threemetrical feet each, generally having atrochee in the first and fourth feet and anamphimacer in the third; applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each.
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Examples
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Priapean volume whose companion in America is as a sealed book.
Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Stuart Oliver Henry 1906
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These Priapean establishments, in which is an exhibition of wax models of different organs and parts of the human body, are too vile for description.
Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Abraham H. Hummel 1887
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