recrementitious
English
Adjective
recrementitious (comparative more recrementitious, superlative most recrementitious)
- Of or pertaining to recrement; consisting of recrement or dross.
- 1680, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chemical Principles
- there are in most mercuries, either recrementitious particles, or at least some loose adherences, separable from the rest of the body
- 1680, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chemical Principles
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 recrementitious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)