defæcate

See also: defaecate

English

Verb

defæcate (third-person singular simple present defæcates, present participle defæcating, simple past and past participle defæcated)

Archaic spelling of defecate.
- 1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter III, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 22:
  [I]f vve defæcate the notion from materiality, […] it vvill be as hard to apprehend, as that an empty vviſh ſhould remove Mountains: a ſuppoſition vvhich if realized, vvould relieve Siſyphus.
- 1897, Jonathan Hutchinson, J. T. Conner, “Cases Demonstrated at the Clinical Museum.”, in The Clinical Journal, volume IX, page 188:
  The peculiar form of constipation present, inability to defæcate, was one which was usually associated with loss of power in the legs, as in this case.