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feculence|ˈfɛkjʊləns|
Also 8 feculance.
[a. F. féculence, ad. L. fæculentia, f. fæculentus: see feculent.]
1. The quality or state of being feculent; foulness. In quot. fig.
1860Sat. Rev. 7 Apr. 433/2 The fulness, as well as the feculence, of the mercantile body.
2. concr. Feculent matter; dregs, lees, dross, scum. Also (now chiefly) in stronger sense, filth. lit. and fig.
a1648Digby Closet Open. (1617) 97 It is not amiss that some feculence lie thick upon the Ale. 1662R. Mathew Unl. Alch. §24. 17 How forcibly Nature will throw out the feculence. 1708J. Philips Cyder (1807) 60 Contriv'd To draw th' earth's purest spirit, and resist Its feculence. 1742Young Nt. Th. ii. 589 All feculence of falsehood long thrown down. 1794Sullivan View Nat. V. 365 Slaves of dulness and ignorance, who drudge in feculance. 1802–3tr. Pallas' Trav. (1812) I. 86 Calcareous constituents, which may be easily recognized in the feculence or foam of the sea. 1854Badham Halieut. 116 Eel..often taste of the weeds and feculence where they dwell. 1855Faraday in B. Jones Life (1870) II. 363 Near the bridges the feculence rolled up in clouds.
b. = fæces 2.
1733Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. vii. §3 The Peristaltick Motion, so necessary..[to] the Expulsion of the Feculence. |