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▪ I. excremental, a.1|ɛkskrɪˈmɛntəl|
[f. excrement1 + -al1.]
†1. Pertaining to, or consisting of, the dregs or baser part of any substance. Cf. excrement1 i. Of food: Consisting largely of matter useless for nutrition. Obs.
1576Baker Jewell of Health 193 b, Vitrioll containeth much of the waterie and excrementall moysture in it. 1600Tourneur Transf. Met. xxvi. 179 The flesh, the soule's imprisoner, Of excrementale earth is wholy fact. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 525 Swines flesh..is less excremental then Pigs flesh, and therefore more nutrible. 1620Venner Via Recta (1650) 85 They have in their flesh much moist and excrementall juyce. 1655Moufet & Benn. Health's Improv. (1746) 183 A Cuckow, whose much spitting argueth a corrupt and excremental Flesh. 1662R. Mathew Unl. Alch. §110. 180 To take a few grains of the excremental parts, out of an ounce of the substantial parts.
2. Of the nature of excrement or evacuated matter.
1574Newton Health Mag. 2 The filth and excrementall matter of the bodie is thereby [by exercise] scattered and avoyded. 1658Sir. T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. vii. (ed. 4) 115 Whether those little dusty particles upon the lower side of the leaves be seeds and seminal parts, or rather..excremental separations, we have not been able to determine. 1878Foster Phys. ii. i. §i. 183 The nutritious digested material is separated from the indigested or excremental material.
b. fig. (cf. excrement1 3).
1591Greene Disc. Coosnage (1859) 40 Vipers of the world, and an excrementall reversion of sin. 1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 159 In a damnable state are you, O ye excrementall vessels of lust.
3. Pertaining to or consisting of excrements; concerned with or proceeding from excrements.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 139/2 When any man his excrementalle intestine issueth out. 1624Donne Serm. xvii. 164 a, The spitting places and excremental corners of the Streets. 1762Lloyd Genius, Envy & Time 97 Mere excremental maggots, bred In poets topsy-turvy head. 1875W. Houghton Sk. Brit. Insects 115 Besides excremental food they prey on insects. 1884Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 15 Nov. 2/4 In excremental contaminations especially lies the greatest risk [of cholera poison].
▪ II. † excreˈmental, a.2 Obs. rare.
[f. excrement2 + -al1.]
Of the nature of an outgrowth or excrescence.
1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 45 Her whitenesse is but an excrementall whitenesse. 1656Artif. Handsom. 46 Art [the polling of the hair, paring the nails, etc.] doth dayly turn..those things which are but excrementall, to be ornamentall. |