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Phallic saints
Phallic saints were actual
saints or local
deities who were invoked for
fertility. More than vulgar representations of the
phallus, phallic saints were benevolent symbols of prolificacy and reproductive fruitfulness, and objects of reverence and especial worship among barren women and young girls. Many were legitimate saints who acquired their
priapic attributes through the process of
folk-etymology.
Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803) reported that, among the wax representations of body parts then presented as offerings to
Cosmas and Damian at
Isernia, near
Naples, on their feast day, those of the
penis were the most common. Hamiliton's observations led
Richard Payne Knight to write his
Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus, in which he reproduced examples of the effigies.
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pref.
mis, retro, sub
n.
reverse
adv.
inversely, backwards, upside down, facedown, wrong, wrongly, amiss, awry, counter, agley
adj.
reverse, inverted, inverse, upside down, backward, adverse, wrong, opposite, opposing, bad tempered, cranky, grumpy, unfavorable, unfavourable [Brit.], acrimonious, amiss, awkward, awry, bloody-minded, churlish, contradictory, contrary, converse
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"reverse; opposite, contrary; converse, inverse; wrong; inverted; surly, grumpy, moody, churlish, perverse, forbidding, curt; upside down, the wrong way round; back/reverse of sth; excrement, dung, droppings"
