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▪ I. excrementitious, a.1|ɛkskriːmɛnˈtɪʃəs|
[f. assumed L. *excrēmentīci-us (f. excrēment-um excrement1) + -ous.]
†1. Of the nature of the dregs or worthless part of any substance. Of food: Consisting largely of matter useless for nutrition; = excremental1 1.
1623Hart Arraignm Ur. ii. 8 The..excrementitious part of the food is voided forth. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., The flesh of wild beasts is lesse excrementitious and dryer, than that of the tame.
2. Of the nature of excrement or excreted matter.
1586Bright Melanch. xix. 118 The aged..faile in the execution of externall actions..by excrementitious humiditie. 1623Rowlandson God's Bless. 35 As if mildew were..an excrementitious humor. 1670Boyle in Phil. Trans. V. 2013 We kept the same Duckling in the same Receiver very close..to keep in the excrementitious steams of her body. 1744Berkeley Siris §30 Exhaling vessels, for carrying off excrementitious parts, are discovered throughout the whole surface of the vegetable. 1761Brit. Mag. II. 435 The scent of excrementitious animal juices, such as musk, civet, etc. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1828) III. xxxii. 297 Almost all insects discharge some drops of an excrementitious fluid. 1875Ure Dict. Arts II. 740 s.v. Guano, This extraordinary excrementitious deposit of certain sea-fowls.
fig.1641Compl. conc. Corruptions & Grievances 4 Sweare to all we must, or else be thrust out as..excrementitious burthens of the Church. 1683D. A. Art Converse 39 The very scum of the world, and..the very excrementitious part of mankind.
3. Pertaining to or arising from excrement. ¶ Also (nonce-use), Full of excrement, foul with ordure.
1792A. Young Trav. Fr. 160 When brisk mountain gales do not ventilate these excrementitious lanes. 1887Q. Rev. 7 Jan. 209 There is indeed reason to suspect the existence of such excrementitious pollution of the soil.
Hence † excremenˈtitiously adv., (a) so far as the excrementitious portion is concerned; (b) (nonce-use) nauseatingly, disgustingly. † excremenˈtitiousness, excrementitious quality; in quot. concr.
1638T. Whitaker Blood of Grape 44 Cold and dry in temper, but excrementitiously moist. 1660Fisher Rusticks Alarm Wks. (1679) 374 Men Excrementitiously exact and diligent to very Dotage. 1660tr. Paracelsus' Archidoxis ii. 81 On this wise are all the voidings of the excrementitiousness of the body.
▪ II. † excrementitious, a.2 Obs.
[f. assumed L. *excrēmentīci-us (f. excrēment-um excrement2) + -ous. Cf. prec.]
Consisting of, or of the nature of, an outgrowth.
c1645Howell Lett. i. xxx. 60 Hair is but an excrementitious thing. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iii. iv. 266 These [feathers] are excrementitious, and not really parts of the Bird. |