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excrementitious

excrementitious adjective: of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.

Adjective

excrementitious (comparative more excrementitious, superlative most excrementitious)

  1. Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
    • wormwood, and the like, […]dissipate and digest any inutile or excrementitious moisture which lieth in the flesh1627 (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...
    • in their excretive faculty in evacuating the excrementicious humours1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions
    Synonyms:
    excrementitial

Synonyms of excrementitious

Forms of excrementitious

comparativemore excrementitious
superlativemost excrementitious

Origin of excrementitious

Adapted borrowing of New Latin excrēmentītius + -ous. By surface analysis, excrement + -itious.

Words formed from excrementitious

Questions about excrementitious

What does excrementitious mean?
Excrementitious means of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
What part of speech is excrementitious?
Excrementitious is an adjective.

Words near excrementitious in the dictionary

  1. excreation
  2. excreations
  3. excrement
  4. excremental
  5. excrementitial
  6. excrementitious
  7. excrementitiously
  8. excrementitiousness
  9. excrementive
  10. excrementize
  11. excrementized

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