defecatoryadj.

1838 J. Reid in Edinb. Med. Jrnl. 49 174 If a particular tract of the spinal chord is necessary to carry on the respiratory movements, there ought also to have been a defecatory tract, a urinary tract, and so on, to carry on the other sympathetic movements.

1868 Trans. Med. Soc. N.Y. 120 in Docs. Assembly State N.Y. (91st Session, Doc. No. 76) V As in several others [sc. disorders] in which constipation was a marked symptom, its general recuperative properties aid in restoring the natural defecatory function.

1871 J. R. Cormack tr. A. Trousseau Lect. Clin. Med. IV. lxxvi. 201 When the fissure is so situated as to protrude entirely when defæcatory efforts are made.

1920 Mil. Surgeon 46 130 Disregard of the defecatory act through neglect, postponement, or repression puts a snub..on the completion of the process of digestion.

1975 Current Anthropol. 16 349/2 The defecatory habits of the Ik come in for constant attention.

2000 K. Poole Radical Relig. from Shakespeare to Milton 27 Martin's birth, as described by Nashe, becomes a defecatory process of Gargantuan proportions.

1847 Lit. Rec. & Jrnl. Linn. Assoc. Pennsylvania Coll. May 155 Some of the secretions may be considered as defecatory or purifying.

1849 J. Scoffern Manuf. Sugar Colonies & Home v. 70 One important remark, however, relating to the use of lime as a defecatory agent, cannot be too strongly impressed upon the sugar grower.

1866 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 16 Mar. 315/1 Using 4 per cent. of lime and the corresponding quantity of hydro-fluoric acid, he obtains a juice which could not have been made by any other defecatory process.

1970 R. Olney French Menu Cookbk. 27 It [sc. gros rouge] has been subjected to violent clarification processes (known as ‘defecatory’), often involving the injection of horse's blood into the wine.