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fæculent

fæculent is the archaic form of feculent.

Meaning of feculent

Adjective

feculent (comparative more feculent, superlative most feculent)

  1. Dirty with faeces or other impurities
    • At this time in history the streets of London were as foul, feculent and disease-ridden as a series of interconnected dunghills, twice as dangerous as a battlefield, and as infrequently maintained as the lower cells of an asylum dungeon.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 84

Forms of fæculent

comparativemore fæculent
superlativemost fæculent

Origin of fæculent

From Latin faeculentus.

Questions about fæculent

What is fæculent the archaic form of?
Fæculent is the archaic form of feculent.

Words near fæculent in the dictionary

  1. fæces
  2. fæcolith
  3. fæcoliths
  4. fæcula
  5. fæculence
  6. fæculent
  7. fæculæ
  8. fæder
  9. fæders
  10. færie
  11. færies

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