defaecate

See also: defæcate

English

Verb

defaecate (third-person singular simple present defaecates, present participle defaecating, simple past and past participle defaecated)

Alternative spelling of defecate
- 1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter III, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 22:
  [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.

Latin

Verb

dēfaecāte

second-person plural present active imperative of dēfaecō