phallicize

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English

Etymology

From phallic +‎ -ize.

Verb

phallicize (third-person singular simple present phalliciz, present participle es, simple past and past participle phallicized)

  1. (transitive) To make phallic.
    • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
      De Marsay has been drafted into a sexual theater: he exists only to phallicize an absent woman lover.
    • 1998, Susan Fairfield, translating Juan-David Nasio, Hysteria from Freud to Lacan, p. 49:
      The libido, formerly accumulated in the fantasied phallus, leaves this central source and gradually phallicizes the real body; that is, it spreads throughout this body, with the isolated exception of the so-called genital zone.