recrementaladj.
/ˌrɛkrᵻˈmɛntl/, U.S. /ˌrɛkrəˈmɛn(t)l/ Now rare.
Of the nature of waste matter or recrement; of or relating to such matter. Cf. recrementory adj., recrementitious adj.
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1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 6v As the brayne had oft occasion, so it should neuer want, the meane of recrementall purgyng.
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 121 Carrying away the recremental sordes of those parts.
1744 J. Armstrong Art of preserving Health iii. 76 'Tis not for those to cultivate a skin Too soft; or teach the recremental fume Too fast to crowd thro' such precarious ways.
1790 H. Downman Infancy (ed. 5) v. 141 The recremental dregs, of acrid kind.
1856 J. C. Morris tr. K. G. Lehmann Man. Chem. Physiol. 33 The moulting, desquamation, or casting off the dead and recremental material of the organic structure of the internal and external surfaces.
1997 P. Larkin Three Forest Conformities ii. 21 In recremental line. Scarred shuts as a function of the time-feed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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