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phal·lic

(făl′ĭk)

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a phallus.

2. Of or relating to the cult of the phallus as an embodiment of generative power: phallic worship.

3. Of or relating to the third stage of psychosexual development in psychoanalytic theory, from about ages three to six, during which gratification is focused on sensations associated with the genital organs. The phallic stage is preceded by the anal stage and followed by the latency period.

[Greek phallikos, from phallos, phallus; see phallus.]

phal′li·cal·ly adv.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

phallic

(ˈfælɪk)

adj

1. of, relating to, or resembling a phallus: a phallic symbol.

2. (Psychoanalysis) psychoanal

a. relating to a stage of psychosexual development during which a male child's interest is concentrated on the genital organs

b. designating personality traits, such as conceit and self-assurance, due to fixation at the phallic stage of development. Compare anal², oral⁷, genital²

c. (in Freudian theory) denoting a phase of early childhood in which there is a belief that both sexes possess a phallus

3. (Other Non-Christian Religious Writings) of or relating to phallicism

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

phal•lic

(ˈfæl ɪk)

adj.

1. of, pertaining to, or resembling a phallus.

2. of or pertaining to phallicism.

3. genital (def. 3b).

[1780–90; < Greek phallikós]

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Adj.	1.	phallic - relating to a phallus especially as an embodiment of generative power; "a phallic cult"; "phallic worship"
	2.	phallic - resembling or being a phallus; "a phallic symbol"; "phallic eroticism"; "priapic figurines" priapic male - being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation; "a male infant"; "a male holly tree"

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phallic

[ˈfælɪk] ADJ → fálico

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

phallic

[ˈfælɪk] adj → phalliquephallic symbol n → symbole m phallique

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

phallic

adj → phallisch; phallic symbol → Phallussymbol nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

phallic

[ˈfælɪk] adj → fallico/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

phal·lic

a. fálico, rel. al pene.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

phallic

adj fálico

References in classic literature ?

The one originated with the authors of the Dithyramb, the other with those of the phallic songs, which are still in use in many of our cities.

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There, upon huge pedestals of dark rock, sculptured with rude emblems of the Phallic worship, separated from each other by a distance of forty paces, and looking down the road which crossed some sixty miles of plain to Loo, were three colossal seated forms--two male and one female--each measuring about thirty feet from the crown of its head to the pedestal.

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The swede-field in which she and her companion were set hacking was a stretch of a hundred odd acres, in one patch, on the highest ground of the farm, rising above stony lanchets or lynchets--the outcrop of siliceous veins in the chalk formation, composed of myriads of loose white flints in bulbous, cusped, and phallic shapes.

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By many it has been believed to be identical with the crux ansata of the ancient phallic worship, but it has been traced even beyond all that we know of that, to the rites of primitive peoples.

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The phallic line-drawing was well-received on Twitter, as users shared the This Morning clip countless times.

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While Nintendo has prepared a system that prevents certain shapes from being made, many mischievous players bypass this and are able to put in subtle phallic or sexual imagery in the system, according to (https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/18/18485522/nintendo-switch-super-smash-bros-ultimate-stage-builder) The Verge's report.

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A PHALLIC protest against potholes seems to have done the trick as repairs were made the very next day.

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"It's totally phallic." The pedantic linguist in me wanted to quip: "None of the other monuments and memorial sculptures in Washington, DC are obelisks.

Why I Hate Parenting Books

independent of sexuality." This omits Sigmund Freud's adumbration of infantile sexuality (oral, anal, phallic stages) with the phallic stage of infantile sexuality reaching a period of strong arousal between age 3 and 5, which is at the height of the Oedipus and Electra complexes.

Xenomelia and sexuality

She didn't like the idea of "running around a city trying to get into clubs and wearing headbands of the phallic persuasion".

What Meghan Markle arranged for best pal's 'stagette' as her maid-of-honour - and it included sunbathing and shots; Meghan Markle's best pal Lindsay Roth asked her to be her maid-of-honour- but there was one thing she was very nervous about

Their topics include the medium matters: materiality and metaphor in some Latin curse tablets, phallic magic: a cross-cultural approach to Roman phallic small finds, victory of good over evil: amuletic animal images on Roman engraved gems, and the archaeology of ritual in the domestic sphere: case studies from Karanis and Pompeii.

Material Approaches to Roman Magic: Occult Objects and Supernatural Substances

He said women who called him a misogynist were those suffering from 'phallic syndrome.'

Some jobs too risky for women, says Duterte

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