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English
Etymology
From excrement + -ious.
Adjective
excrementitious (comparative more excrementitious, superlative most excrementitious)
- 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 ; rinted by J H 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.)