▪ I. † ˈpenile, ˈpenisle, n. Obs.
Also pene-isle.
[f. L. pæne- almost (see pene-) + ile, isle, after peninsula. Cf. F. presqu'île.]
= peninsula.
| 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xii. (1623) 703 A great Cape of Land or penile in Normandy. 1618 Bolton Florus (1636) 280 From thence he suddenly escaped to the penile of Pharus. 1627 Speed England i. §6 Britaine thereby is of a supposed Penisle made an Iland. 1668 Wilkins Real Char. ii. ii. §3. 53 Promontory, Cape,..Point, Pene-isle. 1716 M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. Diss. Physick 39 Podalirius..had her, endow'd with the Penisle call'd Chersonesus, for his Pains. |
▪ II. penile, a. Anat.
(ˈpiːnaɪl)
[ad. mod.L. pēnīl-is, f. penis.]
= penial.
| 1861 Bumstead Ven. Dis. (1879) 319. 1889 Treves Man. Surg. III. 633 If the calculus be in the penile part [of the urethra]. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 1081. |