Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Consisting of or relating to excrement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, composed of, or in any way resembling dung, ordure, or feces; excrementitious; fecal.
- In entomology, frequenting or feeding on dung, as many beetles, flies, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to dung; partaking of the nature of, or containing, dung.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Consisting of, resembling or pertaining to
feces .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Can a more triumphant imbecile, a more abject dabster, a more stercoraceous bourgeois be found!
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The gray _curculio_ walks with snout erect, snuffing the morning air; and here we fall upon a party of apprentice pill-beetles, learning to make up stercoraceous boluses, and forming nearly as long a line as the shopmen who are similarly engaged behind Holloway's counter in the
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various
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The substance vomited is at first dark bilious matter, but if the case continues a long time, stercoraceous
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Empyema is treated very thoroughly, liver abscess, ascites, which he warns must be emptied slowly, ileus especially when it reaches stercoraceous vomiting, and the various difficulties of urination, he divides them into dysuria, ischuria, and stranguria, are all discussed in quite modern fashion.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
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Relief was prompt, and the removal of the foreign body was followed by the issue of stercoraceous matter which had accumulated the six days it had remained in situ.
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She ate regularly, but every three days she experienced pain in the umbilicus and much intestinal irritation, followed by severe vomiting of stercoraceous matter; the pains then ceased and she cleansed her mouth with aromatic washes, remaining well until the following third day.
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Robson reports a case of strangulated hernia in the third month of pregnancy with stercoraceous vomiting.
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Robson reports a case of strangulated hernia in the third month of pregnancy with stercoraceous vomiting.
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Relief was prompt, and the removal of the foreign body was followed by the issue of stercoraceous matter which had accumulated the six days it had remained in situ.
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She ate regularly, but every three days she experienced pain in the umbilicus and much intestinal irritation, followed by severe vomiting of stercoraceous matter; the pains then ceased and she cleansed her mouth with aromatic washes, remaining well until the following third day.
herotuesday commented on the word stercoraceous
What a useful word!
October 14, 2007
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November 1, 2007
yarb commented on the word stercoraceous
...he had reason to believe the stercoraceous flavour, condemned by prejudice as a stink, was, in fact, most agreeable to the organs of smelling; for, that every person who pretended to nauseate the smell of another's excretions, snuffed up his own with particular complacency; for the truth of which he appealed to all the ladies and gentlemen then present: he said, the inhabitants of Madrid and Edinburgh found particular satisfaction in breathing their own atmosphere, which was always impregnated with stercoraceous effluvia: that the learned Dr B--, in his treatise on the Four Digestions, explains in what manner the volatile effluvia from the intestines stimulate and promote the operations of the animal economy: he affirmed, the last Grand Duke of Tuscany, of the Medicis family, who refined upon sensuality with the spirit of a philosopher, was so delighted with that odour, that he caused the essence of ordure to be extracted, and used it as the most delicious perfume: that he himself (the doctor) when he happened to be low-spirited, or fatigued with business, found immediate relief and uncommon satisfaction from hanging over the stale contents of a close-stool, while his servant stirred it about under his nose; nor was this effect to be wondered at, when we consider that this substance abounds with the self-same volatile salts that are so greedily smelled to by the most delicate invalids, after they have been extracted and sublimed by the chemists.
- Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Melford to Phillips), 1771
January 3, 2009
dontcry commented on the word stercoraceous
Yikes!
January 3, 2009