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Definition of Recrements
1. recrement [n] - See also: recrement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recrements
Literary usage of Recrements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North American Medical and Surgical Journal by Hugh L Hodge, Franklin Bache, Charles D Meigs, Benjamin Hornor Coates, R La Roche (1827)
"... in the different parts—of the separation of the various recrements in the
different ducts, causing a cessation of all the functions of the organs, ..."
2. The British Apollo: Containing Two Thousand Answers to Curious Questions in (1726)
"A. This is from the different recrements of blood, which happen in thole: ...
recrements of blood, and the yellow by bilious ..."
3. The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts ; Containing the Economy of by Erasmus Darwin (1825)
"As the salt of the sea has been gradually accumulating, being washed down into
it from the recrements of animal and vegetable bodies, ..."
4. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... because the malignant recrements of the blood and nervous juice, which occasion
fevers, are continually deposited in the joints of gouty persons, ..."
5. Horse-hoeing Husbandry: Or, An Essay on the Principles of Vegetation and by Jethro Tull (1751)
"... fe$ds off jo recrements in the fame Proportion like- wife;i and fh^refore
requires the lefs of the terrene ..."
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