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verb

Defecate v. t. (past & past part. defecated; pres. part. defecating)

To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine. "To defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber."

To free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear; to purify, as from that which materializes. "We defecate the notion from materiality." "Defecated from all the impurities of sense."

Defecate v. i.

To become clear, pure, or free.

To void excrement.

adjective

Defecate adj. Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified. "Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense."

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Etymology of 'Defecate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Again, she bit a patient who tried to hold her. On another occasion she quickly jumped up and pulled the hair of a patient who evidently disturbed her by her noisy shouting. As was stated, she usually wet the bed, resisted being taken to the toilet, or when taken there, would not urinate or defecate, but would do so as soon as she was returned to bed; or she urinated while standing. The same perverse opposition was seen when she would refuse a glass of milk, but grab it when it was taken away and then refuse to let go. She often would grasp the bedclothes or other ...

— Benign Stupors - A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type • August Hoch

... the lower bowel with an enema and thus defer as long as possible the necessity for defecation. With none of the experiments thus far made have we experienced any difficulty in having to remove the patient because of necessity to defecate in the cramped quarters. It is highly probable that, with the majority of sick patients, experiments will not extend for more than 8 or 10 hours, and consequently the apparatus as designed should ...

— Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man • Francis Gano Benedict