defæcate

A form of defecate — To excrete feces from one's bowels.

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Meanings

verbdefæcate (third-person singular simple present defæcates, present participle defæcating, simple past and past participle defæcated)

present singular third person defæcates · participle present defæcating · participle past defæcated · past defæcated

  1. archaicArchaic spelling of defecate.

    The peculiar form of constipation present, inability to defæcate, was one which was usually associated with loss of power in the legs, as in this case.

    1897, Jonathan Hutchinson, J. T. Conner, “Cases Demonstrated at the Clinical Museum.”, in The Clinical Journal, volume IX, page 188
    1 more example

    [I]f vve defæcate the notion from materiality, […] it vvill be as hard to apprehend, as that an empty vviſh ſhould remove Mountains: a ſuppoſition vvhich if realized, vvould relieve Siſyphus.

    1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter III, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 22
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