† defecateadj.
Obsolete.
1. Mentally, morally, or spiritually purified; free from corruption; pure; = defecated adj. 1a. Also as past participle.
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society > morality > virtue > purity > [adjective] > relating to moral purification > morally purified
skere?c1225
defecate?a1505
sublimate1591
refined1596
defecated1611
cleansed1621
expiated1840
a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 289 in Poems (1981) 120 Sen ȝe ar all seuin deificait, Participant of deuyne sapience.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iv. i. i. 719 Caluinists..more defecate then the rest,..and not free from superstition.
1653 H. More Conjectura Cabbalistica 51 A pure and defecate Ethereal Spirit.
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 70 His Conscience uncrowned him, as having a Mind too pure and defecate, to admit of those Maxims and Practices of State.
1745 E. Young Consolation 61 Minds elevate, and, panting for Unseen, And defecate from Sense.
2. Of a substance: free from dregs or impurities; purified; clear. Cf. defecated adj. 2. Also as past participle.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > clarifying liquids > [adjective] > clarified
clarifiedc1430
defecate?1537
defecated1615
?1537 T. Elyot Castell of Helthe ii. xxi. f. 36 If..the ale or biere [be] welle and perfytely brewed and clensed, and..settled and defecate.
1632 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 4) ii. ii. i. i. 233 Many Riuers..defecate and cleare.
1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 235 The Air is generally defecate and serene.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician v. 146 It renders the mass of bloud defæcate.
1727 P. Shaw & E. Chambers tr. H. Boerhaave New Method Chem. ii. 103 The purest metals result of the purest and most defecate mercury, join'd with the subtilest sulphur.
1754 J. Kirkpatrick Anal. Inoculation viii. 180 It may be presumed the Fluids are somewhat less defæcate for this partial cuticular Discharge.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
defecatev.
/ˈdɛfᵻkeɪt/, /ˈdiːfᵻkeɪt/, U.S. /ˈdɛfəˌkeɪt/ 1. † b. transitive. To remove (dregs or impurities) from a substance. Obsolete. rare.In quot. 1774 perhaps intransitive.
a. transitive. To remove impurities or dregs from; to purify, clarify, or refine; also occasionally intransitive. In later use: spec. to remove impurities from (plant juices) as an early step in refining sugar.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > remove impurities from [verb (transitive)]
mereeOE
spurge1303
fine1340
sendre1340
purea1350
purgec1350
purifya1398
depurea1400
clarifyc1430
expurge1483
defecatec1487
subtiliate1551
refine?1572
neatify1581
distil1599
sublimate1601
sweeten1601
depurate1620
infresh1635
lustre1645
lustrate1653
freshen1710
chasten1715
epurate1799
enchastena1806
dispollute1862
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > clarifying liquids > clarify [verb (transitive)]
clarifyc1430
defecatec1487
flay1530
settle1599
serene1708
c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 312 He contrived the delicious licour to exspresse out of theire clustres ripely embolmed, and taught the people how they shuld practise the said licour to defecate and pourge from groce lies and feces.
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 82 When in a sweet pot it iz defecated by all nights standing, the drink iz ye better take that of me.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. i. 95 Some are of opinion that such fat standing waters make the best Beere, and that seething doth defecate it.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician viii. 303 Boil the Colature, defæcated by residence to half.
1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 20 The gum, which they defecate in water by boiling and purging.
1755 J. Hervey Theron & Aspasio II. xii. 186 Some [glands], like the Distiller's Alembic, sublimate; others, like the common Sewers, defœcate.
1828 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 6 85 In the manufacture of sugar in the Colonies, and of the sugar from the beet-root, a considerable quantity of lime is employed to defecate the juice.
1881 H. W. Nicholson From Sword to Share xxxii. 255 The juice should be..defecated and concentrated on the most approved methods.
1928 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 2 May 19/1 After this preliminary affining treatment the refiner melts the washed sugar which is then defecated or pre-filtered with Kieselguhr.
2013 A. Akelah Functionalized Polymeric Materials Agric. & Food Industry iv. 215 The resulting juice is defecated by limiting to pH 9 and carbonating.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > remove impurities from [verb (transitive)] > remove by purifying
bermc1315
spurgea1395
purifyc1400
defeke1605
defecate1774
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 23 It [sc. the air] soon began to defecate, and to depose these particles upon the only [read oily] surface.
2. figurative.
a. transitive. To rid of undesirable qualities; to purge; to purify. Frequently with of, from, specifying the thing removed. Now rare.
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1608 M. Fotherby Fovre Serm. Ep. Ded. sig. A2v Your Graces peculiar Dioces, which..is better defecated and purged, both from Papistes and Schismatiks, then any other quarter of this land.
1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God 60 To defæcate and exalt our Conceptions.
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing iii. 22 If we defæcate the notion from materiality.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 177. ⁋4 To defecate and clear my mind by brisker motions.
1781 H. L. Thrale Diary 1 May in Thraliana (1942) I. i. 492 I wish I could defecate my Mind of Borough Dirt.
1867 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. (new ed.) p. xiv A growing tendency to curtail language into a mere convenience, and to defecate it of all emotion.
1870 W. M. Rossetti Life of Shelley p. xx To defecate life of its misery.
1991 New Eng. Q. 64 79 That Walkerite harshness with which he sought to defecate himself of Princeton and Presbyterianism.
b. transitive. To make morally or spiritually pure by the removal of (corruption, coarseness, sin, etc.); to purge of (an undesirable feature or quality). Now rare.In quot. 1621 perhaps intransitive.
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1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iv. i. iii. 755 Till Luthers time, who began vpon a sudden to defecate, and as another Sunne to driue away those foggy mists of superstition, to restore it to that purity of the Primitiue Church.
1653 G. Goodman Two Great Myst. Christian Relig. 37 Me thinks I have opened the sutures or seams, to let in the gracious influence of Gods spirit, to sanctifie and illuminate mans natural reason, to cleanse and defecate all his carnal corruptions.
1736 W. Warburton Alliance between Church & State i. 36 Whenever Men by a mistaken Aim at Perfection, have in their religious Performances endeavoured to defecate the grossness of Sense, and soar up into the Regions of pure Ideas.
1824 F. W. Macnaghten Considerations on Hindoo Law p. vi We may hope, in time, to cleanse the system of its aggregated corruptions, and to defecate the impurity of ages.
1862 E. M. Goulburn Thoughts Personal Relig. II. iii. vii. 184 To defecate the dregs of the mind.
1872 H. Macmillan True Vine iii. 91 By the death of the body, sin is defecated.
1948 J. Stafford Let. 9 Nov. in D. Roberts Jean Stafford (1988) 89 I desire to defecate this memory from my spirit.
3.
a. intransitive. To pass faeces; to empty the bowels.Now the most common sense.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [verb (intransitive)]
dritea1000
to do one's filthheadc1300
shit?c1335
to go to siegec1400
scumbera1425
cack1436
to do one's easementa1438
to ease nature, ease oneselfc1440
skite1449
to do of one's needingsc1475
fen1486
dung1508
spurge1530
to cover his feet1535
lask1540
stool1540
to exonerate nature1542
file1564
fiant1575
cucka1605
wray1620
exonerate1631
excrement1632
to do one's ease1645
sir-reverence1665
excrementizec1670
nest1679
poop1689
move1699
defecate1837
crap1874
mire1918
to make a mess1928
mess1937
to go poo-poo (also poo-poos)1960
potty1972
to do a whoopsie (or whoopsies)1973
pooh1975
1837 G. Bushe Treat. Malformations, Injuries, & Dis. Rectum & Anus xviii. 215 The calls to defecate are frequent, urgent, and generally ineffectual.
1878 A. M. Hamilton Nerv. Dis. 108 The patient should not be allowed to get up to defecate.
1883 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 2) xi. 90 Cases are recorded..where a woman only defæcated four times a year.
1965 P. Wayre Wind in Reeds iii. 38 The falcon often appears in no hurry as she sits looking; she may even mute, that is defecate, and then rouse or shake her plumage.
2014 Mail Today (New Delhi) (Nexis) 16 Sept. Men defecate in the open as they cannot enter the public toilets due to the filthiness.
b. transitive. Of a person or animal: to eliminate (something) from the body in or with the faeces.
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1906 Clin. Jrnl. 27 June 171/2 Any residuum of nourishment..will go bad and ferment. If it is quickly defæcated, all is well, but if it is retained and the condition remains for some time, then the child's health will suffer.
1924 Sci. Monthly Aug. 143 Food in a partly digested condition defecated by the termites is fed to their offspring.
1983 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 110 168/2 These animals would be more likely to eat the whole fruit and defecate the seeds sometime later.
1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) xvi. 566 The cholera microbe defecated by a man in Dhaka, for example, got into algae in the Bay of Bengal.
Derivatives
ˈdefecating n. and adj.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > clarifying liquids > [adjective]
defecating1679
1679 in J. Evelyn Pomona in Sylva (ed. 3) 408 The defecating of the juices.
1719 P. Horneck High-German Doctor (new ed.) I. 71 My wonderful Detersive, Rarifying and Defecating Opthalmick.
1855 F. D. Maurice Let. in Life (1884) II. vii. 277 Get it clear by any defæcating processes.
1885 Manch. Evening News 29 May 2/2 The use of defecating powders.
1907 Amer. Sugar Industry & Beet Sugar Gaz. 20 Aug. 365/2 The invention also contemplates the provision in a defecating apparatus of means for expeditiously removing the scum that collects on the juice.
1973 R. I. Levy Tahitians ii. iv. 106 It is, however, good manners for others not to look at the defecating or urinating person.
2009 T. Warren Lessons from Everest 58 It seems that poop was literally flying or the person doing the defecating was standing on his/her head, or both.
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