English Dictionary

priapic

/pɹaɪˈæpɪk/

adj

Phallic. / In a state of penile erection. / Related to or overly concerned with male sexual activity or exhibiting excessive male sexual activity.

He admired the priapic statue in the museum.

意味（1）

Phallic.

The only relic of the temple of Isis is a priapic goblet; from the spout of which it is plain that the votaries must have quaffed the wine.

意味（2）

In a state of penile erection.

When God presented Lilith to Adam, Adam was overjoyed and enthusiastically set her on the ground and tried to mount her after the fashion of the animals; but Lilith protested and said: Why should I be on the bottom and you on the top? Priapic Adam was in no mood to explain the natural order of things (from his point of view) and so he simply tried to compel her obedience by force.

意味（3）

Related to or overly concerned with male sexual activity or exhibiting excessive male sexual activity.

Both artists were charming, shameless and cruel, and revelled in what Bacon called an “atmosphere of threat”. Often on the run or hiding out, they led priapic private lives: Bacon was homosexual, Freud hetero.

意味（4）

Excessively masculine; excessively concerned with masculinity.

Gabriele D’Annunzio, a priapic, drug-addicted poet, war hero, military adventurer and man about town, was a mesmeric figure who encouraged triumphalism in Italy’s nationalist right-wingers.