Meaning

(intransitive) To excrete feces from one's bowels..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To excrete feces from one's bowels.
2. To pass (something) as excrement; to purge.
3. To clean (something) of dregs, impurities, etc.; to purify.
4. (obsolete) Freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.

Example Sentences

[I]f vve defæcate the notion from materiality, […] it vvill be as hard to apprehend, as that an empty vviſh ſhould remove Mountains: a ſuppoſition vvhich if realized, vvould relieve Siſyphus.

[…] I ſhall add, that proſecuting a hint a happened to meet with in the diſcourſe of a wandering chymiſt, I practiſed a way ſo to defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber drawn per ſe, that a pretty proportion of it would come over ſo tranſparent and finely coloured, that the experiment did not a little pleaſe thoſe I ſhewed it to.

Some are of opinion that such fat, standing waters make the best beer, and that seething doth defecate it […]

Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense.

Word Forms

• defecates
• defecating
• defecated
• defæcate
• defaecate
• more defecate
• most defecate

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