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stercoration|stɜːkəˈreɪʃən|
[ad. L. stercorātiōn-em, f. stercorāre: see prec. and -ation. Cf. F. stercoration.]
1. The action or an act of manuring with dung.
1605Timme Quersit. ii. i. 103 What..maketh the earth fatte..but a certaine stercoration, and spreading of dung and of urine which commeth from cattle? 1626Bacon Sylva §595 The first and most Ordinary Helpe is Stercoration. 1696Evelyn Let. to Wotton 28 Oct., They tooke great care indeede of their vines and olives, stercorations, ingraftings. 1707Curios. Husb. & Gard. 121 A Field might be sown every year; if we restor'd to it by Stercoration, what we take from it in the Harvest. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) II. 23 When there was a god Sterquilinius, an agricultural poet might be allowed to sing of stercoration.
†2. Dung, manure. Obs.
1694Motteux Rabelais iv. lxvii, Do you call this..Excrement, Stercoration, Sir-reverence, Ordure? 1733Tull Horse-hoeing Husb. vii. (80ed.) 55 When the Saliva and Ferment of the Stomach have served for Stercoration to it.
†3. nonce-use. A disgusting utterance. Obs.
1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. vii. App. (1852) 652 Another..publickly held forth in one of his late stercorations, that [etc.]. |