Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to excrement; of the nature of excrement.
- Of the nature of a natural outgrowth or excrement.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
nature ofexcrement .
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Examples
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In the second is explained the whole doctrine of fevers, an account of certain matters relating to them being premised, such as excrementitious discharges, critical days, and other appearances, and concluding with certain symptoms which are the concomitants of fevers.
Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine James Sands Elliott
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My dear departed and very heterosexual friend Norman Mailer (six marriages -- all to females) once called marriage an excrementitious union.
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Some divide them into profitable and excrementitious.
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To these humours you may add serum, which is the matter of urine, and those excrementitious humours of the third concoction, sweat and tears.
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This whole country seems to be teeming with excrementitious gas bags in the guise of something ostensibly representing leaders , charged with the responsibility of upholding our constitution……..puke.
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The Pythagoreans say, that the moon appears to us terraneous, by reason it is inhabited as our earth is, and in it there are animals of a larger size and plants of a rarer beauty than our globe affords; that the animals in their virtue and energy are fifteen degrees superior to ours; that they emit nothing excrementitious; and that the days are fifteen times longer.
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True, it is somewhat excrementitious in its character, and there is no end to the heaps of liver, lights, and bowels, as if the globe were turned wrong side outward; but this suggests at least that Nature has some bowels, and there again is mother of humanity.
Walden 2004
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If you think I have an excrementitious intelligence run after Donovan and ask him to listen to you.
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It is evidently a socially acceptable word that the OED defines as “excrementitious and decayed matter employed to fertilize the soil; manure.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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It is evidently a socially acceptable word that the OED defines as “excrementitious and decayed matter employed to fertilize the soil; manure.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
slumry commented on the word excrementitious
Oh, the excrementitious ramblings of spammers.
August 24, 2015
qms commented on the word excrementitious
If a coprophage had all his wishes
What meal would he find most delicious?
Would He eat Polish spam
Or would gówno with jam
Be the most excrementitious?
August 24, 2015
bilby commented on the word excrementitious
*applause*
August 24, 2015