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单词 recrementitious
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recrementitiousadj.

Brit. /ˌrɛkrᵻm(ə)nˈtɪʃəs/, U.S. /ˌrɛkrəm(ə)nˈtɪʃəs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: recrement n., -itious suffix1.
Etymology: < recrement n. + -itious suffix1. Compare earlier recremental adj.
Now rare.
Of the nature of waste matter or recrement; drossy; superfluous. Cf. recremental adj.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > unessential
indifferent1563
of indifferency1564
unfundamental1638
dispensable1649
recrementitious1650
immaterial1698
recrementory1822
unessential1841
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis ii. 53 That superfluous and recrementitious offspring of haire.
1676 R. Boyle in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 10 525 Common Mercury skilfully freed from its recrementitious and heterogeneous parts.
1757 A. Cooper Compl. Distiller i. xx. 83 These recrementitious, or drossy Parts of the Sugar.
1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 302 The recrementitious earth is thus easily separated.
1855 W. Brinton in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 400/2 The importance of these ‘recrementitious’ secretions.
1873 G. Fleming tr. J. B. A. Chauveau Compar. Anat. ii. ii. 364 Saliva: a recrementitious fluid that softens the food.
1904 Jrnl. Compar. Pathol. & Therapeutics 17 96 They believe that it is owing to the special activity of these cells that all the results previously attributed to recrementitious secretion must be ascribed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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