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stercoraceous, a.|stɜːkəˈreɪʃəs|
[f. L. stercorāce-us, f. stercor-, stercus dung: see -aceous.]
1. Consisting of, containing, or pertaining to fæces.
1731Arbuthnot Nat. Aliments i. (1735) 11 A putrid stercoraceous Taste and Odour. 1759Mills tr. Duhamel's Husb. i. viii. (1762) 19 The stercoraceous salts of the dung. 1787[see stercorarious, 1785 quot.]. 1834Rep. Sel. Comm. Metrop. Sewers 115 Pumping of stercoraceous filth is practised sometimes every night. 1876J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 662 This discharge of ‘stercoraceous’ matter by the mouth is due..to the fact that [etc.].
fig.1832Westm. Rev. XVII. 522 A sneaking stercoraceous policy.
b. Path. Of vomiting: Consisting of fæces, fæcal.
1754–64Smellie Midwifery III. 516 The Child had that night Stercoraceous vomitings. 1898Rose & Carless Man. Surg. 931 This shock..is..followed by vomiting, at first gastric, then bilious, and finally stercoraceous or fæcal.
2. Ent. Of certain beetles, flies, etc.: Frequenting or feeding on dung.
1891Century Dict.
Hence stercoˈraceously adv.
1894J. M. Walsh Coffee 142 The appreciation of such stercoraceously deposited beans by the natives being an undoubted fact. |