The Collaborative International Dictionary
micturate \micturate\ v. i. to pass urine through the ureter; to urinate. [Medical]
Syn: urinate, piddle, puddle, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, make, pass water.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"urinate," by 1842, from micturition; malformed and with an erroneous sense; condemned from its birth.
Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive physiology formal English) to urinate
WordNet
v. eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug" [syn: make, urinate, piddle, puddle, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water]
Usage examples of "micturate".
I returned home and tried to keep as comfortable as possible, but could not micturate with any degree of satisfaction or comfort.
The whole poetry-loathing world had the face of Dr Wapenshaw but, he felt, having soundly and legitimately bemerded that face in imagination and micturated on it also, the world was content merely to loathe, while Dr Wapenshaw had had to go further, deliberately liquidating the poet.
Enderby, sighing, micturated briefly, pulled the chain and left his room buttoning, sighing.
The thin sharp Roman wine had micturated round freely before his Piedmontese ink had begun its slower inscriptions.
The whole poetry-loathing world had the face of Dr Wapenshaw but, he felt, having soundly and legitimately bemerded that face in imagination and micturated on it also, the world was content merely to loathe, while Dr Wapenshaw had had to go further, deliberately liquidating the poet.
Enderby, sighing, micturated briefly, pulled the chain and left his room buttoning, sighing.
In any ease, he ceased micturating, adjusted things behind that beard, and sat down on air with folded arms without uttering another sound.
With the results still incomplete, the score stood at 2 murders, 76 rapes, 332 aggravated assaults, 13 arsons, 20 kidnappings-mostly of teen-aged girls-56 robberies with violence, uncounted cases of public drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and several thousand lesser misdemeanors such as child abuse, micturating on and throwing bottles at pedestrians from hotel windows, driving stolen buses off bridges, hijacking an airliner, pulling down statues in public parks, defilement of churches and cemeteries, and destruction, theft, burning, and looting of private property valued at $33 million.
I lacked a right command and had no time to search my stick for a micturating figure.