defecate

Verb

defecate (third-person singular simple present defecates, present participle defecating, simple past and past participle defecated)

1. (intransitive) To excrete feces from one's bowels.
2. (archaic, transitive) To pass (something) as excrement; to purge.
3. (also, archaic, figuratively, transitive) To clean (something) of dregs, impurities, etc.; to purify.
   • [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.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 ſhall add, that proſecuting a hint a happened to meet with in the diſcourſe of a wandering chymiſt, I practiſed a way ſo to defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber drawn per ſe, that a pretty proportion of it would come over ſo tranſparent and finely coloured, that the experiment did not a...1744, Robert Boyle with Thomas Birch, edited by Thomas Birch, The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Five Volumes : to which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author, volume 1, compilation of...

Adjective

IPA/ˈdɛfɪkət/

defecate (comparative more defecate, superlative most defecate)

1. (obsolete) Freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
   • Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense.1699, William Bates, Spiritual Perfection, unfolded and enforced