Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inflammation of the penis; phallitis. See balanitis, posthitis.
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- noun medicine
Inflammation of thepenis .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Age quaeso hercle usque ex penitis faucibus, etiam amplius.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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I have seen this accident happen more than once, in one case being followed by a penitis that seriously complicated matters.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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The prepuce is the starting-point of many of the cases of penitis and retention of urine that often accompany attacks of gonorroea; especially can this result be anticipated where the prepuce is long, pendulous, and with its veins in a varicose condition.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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14 Refpondit: Tamet/i malttia fftfM, mùltorumciHe increduliioa, penitis vos atterendi caufim prabeat, ferva - mini eamen. 1 y Tantummodo convertite Vos, é* quante faciem meam:
Lux in tenebris, hoc est prophetiæ donum quô Deus Ecclesiam Evangelicam, in regno Bohemiæ ... Christoph Kotter , Krystyna Poniatowska 1657
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