excrementive
English
Etymology
excrement + -ive
Adjective
excrementive (not comparable)
- (archaic) Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
- It may, indeed, be thought a modesty in nature to cover those excrementive parts, which, left uncovered, perhaps might offer offence. In birds, they are wholly concealed by their feathers; in beasts, by the tail they are produced with.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
Synonyms
- excretory
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 excrementive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)