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Webster 1913 Edition
Excrementitious
{
Exˊcre-men-ti′tial
,Exˊcre-men-ti′tious
, }Adj.
(Physiol.)
Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.
Webster 1828 Edition
Excrementitious
EXCREMENTI'TIOUS
,Adj.
Definition 2024
excrementitious
excrementitious
English
Adjective
excrementitious (comparative more excrementitious, superlative most excrementitious)
- Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
- Bishop Berkeley
- [It is an opinion of some moderns] that it [vital flame] requires constant eventilation, through the trachea and pores of the body for the discharge of a fuliginous and excrementitious vapour.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:
- "Every Genius and Temper, as the sundry sorts of Beasts and living Creatures, have their proper excrement: and it is the part of a wise man to take notice of it, and to chuse what is profitable, as well as to abandon what is useless and excrementitious."
- Bishop Berkeley