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Definition of Feculent
1. Adjective. Foul with waste matter.
Definition of Feculent
1. a. Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.
Definition of Feculent
1. Adjective. Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid. ¹
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Definition of Feculent
1. foul with impurities [adj]
Medical Definition of Feculent
1. Foul. Origin: L. Faeculentus, full of excrement, fr. Faeces, dregs, faeces (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feculent
Literary usage of Feculent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the physical and medical treatment of children by William Dewees (1858)
"I.—The feculent Diarrhoea. 1254. Children under two years, or two years and a
half old, are especially liable to this complaint. We shall cease to wonder at ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children by James Stewart (1845)
"There appear to be three varieties of diarrhoea: feculent, serous, and bilious,
as the predominating nature of the alvine evacuations indicates. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Chemistry: On the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, in which the ...by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson (1821)
"The expressed juice, being diluted with water, should be set by for a few days,
till the feculent parts have subsided, and the supernatant fluid is become ..."
4. The Republican Campaign Textbook by Republican National Committee (U.S.), Republican Congressional Committee (1880)
"feculent, reeking Corruption"— A long array of Defaulters in the Mexican War,
its prodigious Expenditures and Plunder. The Mexican War, one of the darkest ..."
5. The Medical Times and Gazette (1879)
"The countenance is dull, the face sallow, and in some coses you can smell the
breath distinctly feculent. The retention of faeces, however, seems, ..."
6. Diary of Iohn Evelyn, Esq., F.R.S.: To which are Added a Selection from His by John Evelyn (1906)
"... inferring that now ye saints were call'd to destroy temporal governments; with
such feculent stuff; so dangerous a crisis were things growne to. Jan. ..."
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