defæcating

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defæcating

  1. present participle and gerund of defæcate
    • 1873, Christopher Heath, “Cases Of Colotomy”, in The British Medical Journal, volume II, page 568:
      A married woman, aged 51, was admitted into University College Hospital on July 4th, 1873, with a history of three weeks’ obstruction of the bowels, following upon difficulty in defæcating of some months’ duration.