Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Excrements.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Excrements.
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- noun obsolete
excrements
Etymologies
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Examples
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A badness which embraces and wallows in social dejecta.
Good Bad Dodie Bellamy 2008
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A badness which embraces and wallows in social dejecta.
Archive 2008-08-01 Dodie Bellamy 2008
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Ita fastu ante unum mensem turgida civitas, et cacuminibos coelum pulsare visa, ad inferos usque paucis diebus dejecta.
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There is a like discrepancy in the views on the possibility of its diffusion by drinking water, on the influence of conditions of soil, on the question whether the dejecta contain the poison or not, and on the duration of the incubation period.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various
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Another method is to laboriously analyse the injesta or food consumed and compare it with the dejecta or excretions, until a quantity and kind of food is found which is just sufficient to keep the body in equilibrium.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
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The tray which receives the dejecta should be cleaned out and supplied with fresh sawdust each day, and the soiled sawdust, remains of food, etc., should be cremated.
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These boxes were placed at the end of each row of tents or wards, and were so arranged that both the dejecta and the bedpans were thoroughly disinfected. 181 This proved itself so useful that it came subsequently into general employment in the hospitals at Salonika.
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918
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An instance was where anything was negligently or carelessly thrown from a house (dejecta vel effusa).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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The sweat in dysentery unmistakably bears the odor of the dejecta.
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The sweat in dysentery unmistakably bears the odor of the dejecta.
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