defecation

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  1. The act or process of separating from lees or dregs; a cleansing from impurities or foreign matter; clarification. The spleen and liver arc obstructed in their offices of defecation, whence vicious and dreggish blood. Harvey, Consumptions.
  2. The act of discharging the fæces; the act of evacuating the bowels.
  3. Figuratively, purification from what is gross or low. He was afterwards an hungry (said the Evangelist), and his abstinence from meat might be a defecation of his faculties, and an opportunity of prayer. Jer. Taylor, Great Exemplar, i. § 9.

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  • "Therefore you cover your body with clothing, evidently ashamed of it, and pretend that you have no natural functions, especially not defecation or reproductive capacity." —  Yon Ill Wind
  • Wired speculates about Apple CEO Steve Jobs 'urination, defecation, and possible' massive diarrhea ' —  MacDailyNews
  • To recognize the easing of bowels as a public matter is to admit that there are cultures of defecation, but culture gets little play in either of these books. —  American Scientist Online
  • They do admit that an open-defecation aesthetic may emerge in areas where bodies are used to squatting and climates are reasonably warm. —  American Scientist Online
  • And yet perhaps the problems of open defecation are better cast in terms of population density, land availability, disinfection technology and scavenging capacity. —  American Scientist Online
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  1. = French défécation = Spanish defecacion = Portuguese defecação = Italian defecazione, from Late Latin defæcatio(n-), from defæcare, defecate: see defecate.
 

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