excrementive
English
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editexcrementive (not comparable)
- (archaic) excretory
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
- It may, indeed, be thought a modesty in nature to cover those excrementive parts, which, left uncovered, perhaps might offer offence. In birds, they are wholly concealed by their feathers; in beasts, by the tail they are produced with.
References
edit- “excrementive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.