Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, excrement; anything purged from the body, naturally or by art.
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Examples
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They even smiled, and, in their conversation, which assumed a lighter tone, I caught and recorded in pencil on my shirt-cuff, for future explanation, words which sounded like aiskistos aneer, farmakos, catharma, and Thargeelyah.
In the Wrong Paradise Andrew Lang 1878
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Their behaviour in this juncture, and frequently afterwards, when I attempted to make them tell me the meaning of the unknown words, and of catharma
In the Wrong Paradise Andrew Lang 1878
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