excreate

English edit

Etymology edit

Latin excreare, exscreare, from ex (“out”) + screare (“to hawk”).

Verb edit

excreate (third-person singular simple present excreates, present participle excreating, simple past and past participle excreated)

(obsolete) To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
- 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
  In the washing his mouth with a syringe forcibly, I put him upon excreating a great quantity of a filthy matter

References edit

“excreate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams edit

excetera, execrate

Latin edit

Verb edit

excreāte

second-person plural present active imperative of excreō