Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Defecate \Def"e*cate\, a. [L. defaecatus, p. p. of defaecare to defecate; de- + faex, faecis, dregs, lees.] Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense.
--Bates.
Defecate \Def"e*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Defecated; p. pr. & vb. n. Defecating.]
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To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine.
To defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber.
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To free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear; to purify, as from that which materializes.
We defecate the notion from materiality.
--Glanvill.Defecated from all the impurities of sense.
--Bp. Warburton.
Defecate \Def"e*cate\, v. i.
To become clear, pure, or free.
--Goldsmith.To void excrement.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "to purify," from Latin defaecatus, past participle of defaecare "cleanse from dregs, purify," from the phrase de faece "from dregs" (plural faeces; see feces). Excretory sense first recorded 1830 (defecation), American English, from French. Related: Defecated; defecating.
Wiktionary
(context obsolete English) Freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified. v
1 (context now rare English) To purify, to clean of dregs et
2 (context now rare transitive English) To purge; to pass (something) as excrement. 3 (context intransitive English) To empty one's bowels of feces.
WordNet
v. have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds" [syn: stool, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make]
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "defecate".
Furthermore the disease I smell in your colon, which causes you such pain to defecate and is likely to kill you in another year, will be gone in five minutes and corrected in two days.
Because they do not defecate, their rectal avenue is a second mouth complete with tongue, one whose sphincters are every bit prehensile as your lips.
His choosiness about where he squatted to defecate had grown to the point of compulsive obsession.
Passive-aggressive behavior was commonplace, and it was not unusual for children to defecate or urinate on themselves.
She has drunk 1,2 quarts from the nipples and has defecated once on the brown floor.
We got him outside, where he urinated and defecated without a problem.
The three then left the building, but not before Sadie, ever the animal, defecated on the landing.
The woman who had defecated on the grass of the airing court had devised a dance of her own: she made a trancelike pattern with both arms held out in front of her, as though perhaps rocking a large child in her arms, while her face, in which the mouth was puckered inward over blackened gums, was stretched by an expression of concentrated wonder.
There are even some claims that Eva Braun urinated and defecated on Adolf Hitler.
Johnny snarled silently and was behind the defecating German in an instant.
Everywhere babies were crying, sucking, sleeping and defecating in the grass.
He knew then that the same man who had eaten at the eland carcass had defecated here, close to the path that led from Majuba down the mountains, and that the man was of the San.
People were running helter-skelter, retching, vomiting and defecating uncontrollably.
Beginning with pushing and shoving, and ritualized defecating and sniffing, the contests escalated, especially during the spring rutting season, to rearing, biting necks, striking at knees, and kicking out hind legs toward faces, heads, and chests.
She rumbled, screamed, trumpeted, defecated, secreted from her musth gland, whirled in a dance that made the ground shake.