excrementitious

English

Etymology

From excrement +‎ -ious.

Adjective

excrementitious (comparative more excrementitious, superlative most excrementitious)

1. Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     wormwood, and the like, […] dissipate and digest any inutile or excrementitious moisture which lieth in the flesh

   • 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:

     in their excretive faculty in evacuating the excrementicious humours

   • 1744, George Berkeley, Siris:

     [It is an opinion of some moderns] that it [vital flame] requires constant eventilation, through the trachea and pores of the body for the discharge of a fuliginous and excrementitious vapour.

   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:

     "Every Genius and Temper, as the sundry sorts of Beasts and living Creatures, have their proper excrement: and it is the part of a wise man to take notice of it, and to chuse what is profitable, as well as to abandon what is useless and excrementitious."

   • 1860, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, published 1860, page 398:

     You are to die— […]
     I absolve you from all except yourself, spiritual, bodily—that is eternal,
     (The corpse you will leave will be but excrementitious.)

Derived terms

• excrementitiously
• excrementitiousness