Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In anatomy, a member: technically distinguished from truncus.

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Examples

  • It's primary meaning is 'ploughshare' and its secondary meaning is precisely 'penis' or 'membrum virile' in VictorianSpeak, if you may.

    Sowing wild oats and plowing the fields 2010

  • It's primary meaning is 'ploughshare' and its secondary meaning is precisely 'penis' or 'membrum virile' in VictorianSpeak, if you may.

    Archive 2010-09-01 2010

  • Huc faciunt medicamenta venerem sopientia, ut camphora pudendis alligata, et in bracha gestata (quidam ait) membrum flaccidum reddit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Surax radix ad coitum summe facit si quis comedat, aut infusionem bibat, membrum subito erigitur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Of course, their case does no depend on this detail, any more than the opposing case deepens on proving, by hook or by crook, that Junia both an -s on the end of her name and a membrum virile.

    Junia, A Woman Apostle? 2007

  • The passage eloquently describes the process: "Cumque volumus ut fascietur, nutrix eius membra suaviter tangere debet et quod dilatandum fuerit dilatare, et quod subtiliandum subtiliare, et omne membrum secundum convenientiorem figuram figurare, et hoc totum subtilit compressione cum extremitatibus digitorum, quod quidem multis faciendum erit vicibus." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • To the second, which is busied either in refining the good nourishment or expelling the bad, is chiefly belonging the liver, like in colour to congealed blood, the shop of blood, situate in the right hypochondry, in figure like to a half-moon, generosum membrum Melancthon styles it, a generous part; it serves to turn the chylus to blood, for the nourishment of the body.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Of course, their case does no depend on this detail, any more than the opposing case deepens on proving, by hook or by crook, that Junia both an -s on the end of her name and a membrum virile.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • Multi in Islandia hodie costis et ossibus balenarum, domos suas construunt, &c. Hic membrum secundum initium sumit, de incolarum viuendi ratione et moribus.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Multi in Islandia hodie costis et ossibus balenarum, domos suas construunt, &c. Hic membrum secundum initium sumit, de incolarum viuendi ratione et moribus.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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