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  • noun Plural form of priapus.

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Examples

  • From this comes the ancient custom of suspending little priapi from boys 'necks to avert the evil eye.

    Satyricon 2007

  • From this comes the ancient custom of suspending little priapi from boys 'necks to avert the evil eye.

    The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • From this comes the ancient custom of suspending little priapi from boys 'necks to avert the evil eye.

    The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • This penis-bone (os priapi) is very large in the badger and dog, and bent like a hook in the marten; it is also very large in some of the lower apes, and protrudes far out into the glans.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • But those who are such and who at the same time have spurned religion become lustful spirits after death, appearing to themselves like men indeed, but to others at a distance like _priapi; _ and they see in the dark and not at all in the light, like night-owls.

    Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

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