stercoration

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English

Etymology

From Latin stercoratio, from stercorare (“to dung”).

Noun

stercoration (countable and uncountable, plural stercorations)

  1. (obsolete) Manuring with dung.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis , “VI. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:
      The first and most ordinary help is stercoration . The sheeps dung is one of the best ; and next the dung of kine : and thirdly , that of horses

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stercoration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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