Meanings
comparative more merdurinous · superlative most merdurinous
- archaicrareConsisting of excrement and urine.
16??, Ben Jonson, Epigrams Of all your Night-tubs, when the Carts do cluster, Who shall discharge first his merdurinous Load […]
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163?, John Taylor, A Bawd Theſe are the right paternes of an induſtrious Bawd, for ſhee pickes her living out of the layſtall or dunghil of our vices ; if ſhe thrive and grow fat, it is with the Merdurinous draffe of our imperfections […]
[…] Catholics put their god through a double process of Transubstantiation, according to Oldham, one as merdurinous as it was miraculous: 'Down goes the tiny saviour at a bit', he writes with satirical relish, 'To be digested, and at length beshit […]
2005, Douglas Burnham, Enrico Giaccherini, The poetics of transubstantiation: from theology to metaphor
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