emiction

English

Etymology

From Latin e (“out”) + mingere, mictum (“to make water”). Cognate with Middle English miȝen (“to urinate”), from Old English mīġan (“to urinate”).

Noun

emiction (usually uncountable, plural emictions)

1. Urination.
   • 2009, Mathias Sajovitz, John Irving’s Existentialist Heroes:

     The defect in question prevents common bacteria to be flushed out easily after intercourse, as would be the case with “normal penises,” essentially causing him pain during emiction and sexual climax.

2. Urine.

References

• “emiction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.