a. [f. Gr. ἀφροδῑσι-ός, adj. f. Ἀφροδῑτη the Grecian Venus + -AN.] Belonging to Venus, devoted to sensual love.

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1860.  C. Reade, Cloister & Hearth, III. 15. The state nursery of those aphrodisian dames their favourites.

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