seweragen.
/ˈs(j)uːərɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈsuərɪdʒ/ 1. attributive.1848 Act 11 & 12 Victoria c. 112 §34 The Limits of such Sewerage Districts.1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. x. §2412 Glazed sewerage-pipes.1865 Times 5 Apr. 3/1 The opening..of the great sewerage works.
a. Drainage by means of sewers; a method or system of draining by sewers.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > drainage by means of
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1834 Rep. Sel. Comm. Metrop. Sewers 149 The tenantry are paying sewer-rates; they never have enjoyed sewerage.
1834 Rep. Sel. Comm. Metrop. Sewers 150 To prepare a sewerage and manage it themselves.
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 317/2 How imperfectly the advantages of good sewerage are appreciated.
1892 T. B. F. Eminson Epidemic Pneumonia 12 Good sewerage will, I trust, banish this disease as effectually.
b. The carrying away of refuse.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > drainage by means of > of blood
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1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine v. 246 The hole [in the altar rock] is an aperture for the sewerage of the blood of victims.
2. concrete. Sewers collectively; the system of sewers belonging to a particular locality.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > sewer > collectively
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1834 Rep. Sel. Comm. Metrop. Sewers 150 I have seen a programme of the street; I think that is the position in which the sewerage is.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 389/1 Our arched and subterraneous sewerage.
1889 A. C. Gunter That Frenchman! v. 46 Whose foul-smelling gutters have been replaced by under-ground sewerage.
3.
a. Sewage.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dirt removed in cleaning > sewage
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1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 383/2 Which forms a part of the street mud..of the scavenger's cart, rather than of the sewerage.
1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 182 The Tiber..enriched with city sewerage.
1900 Jrnl. School Geogr. (U.S.) June 207 To carry sewerage of Chicago toward the Mississippi river.
b. figurative. Moral filth or garbage.
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society > morality > moral evil > [noun] > moral foulness > that which is
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1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel III. vii. 190 She..poured a little social sewerage into his ears.
1868 A. C. Swinburne W. Blake 131 The weltering sewerage of Aphra's unreadable and unutterable plays.
1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 341 The foulest depths of literary sewerage.
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