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Definition of Passing water

1. Noun. A euphemism for urination. "He had to take a leak"

Literary usage of Passing water

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"But it so happened that the Duke fell ill of a serious malady, remaining forty-eight hours without passing water. Finding that the remedies of his ..."

2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"But it so happened that the Duke fell ill of a serious malady, remaining forty-eight hours without passing water. Finding that the remedies of his ..."

3. The Homoeopathic domestic medicine by Joseph Laurie (1883)
"passing water, pain in the hack and loins, want of appetite, unpaired digestion, or general derangement of the health. TREATMENT. ..."

4. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1868)
"1 am now only referring to this symptom of frequency of passing water as existing ... In prostatitis there is usually pain at the end of passing water —loss ..."

5. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1856)
"... g is a tube for passing water into the cistern, and » is a waste cistern for receiving the water when it gets above the proper level and flows over. ..."

6. The homœopathic vade mecum of modern medicine and surgery by Edward Harris Ruddock (1869)
"... in passing water. These conditions are usually consequent on some diseases of the urinary organs—cystitis, calculus, ..."

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