excrementitious

[ ek-skruh-men-tish-uhs ]

adjective

1. of or like excrement.

Other Words From

• excre·men·titious·ly excre·mental·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of excrementitious¹

First recorded in 1580–90; excrement + -itious

Example Sentences

A Manchester official described streets “so covered with refuse and excrementitious matter as to be almost impassable from depth of mud, and intolerable from stench.”

From New York Times

Here closes the testimony already revealed in respect of this bird, except we also refer to it—which is apocryphal—certain coprolites or excrementitious matters found in the same formation.

From Project Gutenberg

They probably act, therefore, by diminishing the metamorphosis of the tissues, and the consequent loading of the blood with excrementitious products which the hyperpyrexia has a tendency to promote.

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Nothing is more common than the expression of the opinion that the wastes of a population are offensive and dangerous in proportion to the degree to which excrementitious matter is allowed to flow away with its general drainage.

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The effects of the malarial fever and of the hyperpyrexia of typhoid fever, when combined, must almost necessarily entail more accumulation of excrementitious material in the blood than would occur either disease existing separately.

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