Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to urine; urinary.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In medicine, of or relating to or promoting the flow of urine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Med.) Of or pertaining to the urine; diuretic; urinary.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of, or relating to urine; urinary

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin ūrēticus, from Greek ourētikos, from ourein, to urinate.]

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Examples

  • Conservatives in particular weren't pleased: not with Mr. Serrano, not with his picture, and not with the National Endowment for the Arts, which had forked over $15,000 in taxpayer money to support this uretic gesture.

    Geert Wilders Is a Test for Western Civilization 2009

  • Whatever it is, a light-hearted briefing by one of the Prime Minister's aides about how his boss prepared for the big veto moment has justified all the uretic references the lobby pack could possibly muster.

    Evening Standard - Home Joshi Herrmann 2011

  • Whatever it is, a light-hearted briefing by one of the Prime Minister's aides about how his boss prepared for the big veto moment has justified all the uretic references the lobby pack could possibly muster.

    Evening Standard - Home Joshi Herrmann 2011

  • Whatever it is, a light-hearted briefing by one of the Prime Minister's aides about how his boss prepared for the big veto moment has justified all the uretic references the lobby pack could possibly muster.

    Evening Standard - Home Joshi Herrmann 2011

  • Whatever it is, a light-hearted briefing by one of the Prime Minister's aides about how his boss prepared for the big veto moment has justified all the uretic references the lobby pack could possibly muster.

    Evening Standard - Home Joshi Herrmann 2011

  • Whatever it is, a light-hearted briefing by one of the Prime Minister's aides about how his boss prepared for the big veto moment has justified all the uretic references the lobby pack could possibly muster.

    Evening Standard - Home Joshi Herrmann 2011

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