excrementitious
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]excrementitious (comparative more excrementitious, superlative most excrementitious)
- Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- wormwood, and the like, […] dissipate and digest any inutile or excrementitious moisture which lieth in the flesh
- 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
- in their excretive faculty in evacuating the excrementicious humours
- 1744, George Berkeley, Siris:
- [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."
- 1860, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, published 1860, page 398:
- You are to die— […]
I absolve you from all except yourself, spiritual, bodily—that is eternal,
(The corpse you will leave will be but excrementitious.)