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Re: one citation from 1864 #121891 02/03/2004 1:26 PM
Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California jheem veteran
jheem veteran Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California	"An ithyphallic audacity that insults what is most sacred and decent among men." In the OED, besides the religious term and a poetical meter, this one citation is used for the gloss: grossly indecent, obscene. I argue that the meaning in the sentence above is the technical one, and the lexicographer has transferred his own repugnance into a new, spurious meaning. But I could be wrong.

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Subject	Posted By	Posted
feculence	Father Steve	02/02/2004 5:27 AM
Re: feculence	Capfka	02/02/2004 11:07 AM
Re: feculence	wwh	02/02/2004 12:59 PM
Re: feculence	TEd Remington	02/02/2004 12:51 PM
Re: feculence	tsuwm	02/02/2004 2:51 PM
ithyphallic	consuelo	02/03/2004 12:44 AM
Re: ithyphallic	jheem	02/03/2004 2:05 AM
Since at least 1913	consuelo	02/03/2004 11:11 AM
Re: one citation from 1864	jheem	02/03/2004 1:26 PM
Re: one citation from 1864	tsuwm	02/03/2004 1:42 PM
Re: one citation from 1864	jheem	02/03/2004 2:42 PM
Re: one citation from 1864	hibernicus	02/04/2004 2:55 PM
Etymologies from Merriam Webster	hibernicus	02/04/2004 3:02 PM
Re: Etymologies from Merriam Webster	Sparteye	02/08/2004 5:29 AM
Re: one citation from 1864	Faldage	02/04/2004 3:14 PM
Re: feculence	Zed	02/03/2004 12:45 AM
Re: feculence	jheem	02/03/2004 2:52 PM
Re: ithyphallic	AnnaStrophic	02/03/2004 3:48 PM
Re: priapismos	jheem	02/04/2004 3:27 AM
Re: priapismos	of troy	02/04/2004 2:16 PM
Re: feculence	wwh	02/10/2004 2:43 AM

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