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recrementitious, a.|ˌrɛkrɪmənˈtɪʃəs| [f. as prec. + -itious.] Of the nature of recrement; drossy, superfluous, separable, unessential.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. ii. 53 That superfluous and recrementitious offspring of haire. 1675–6Boyle Exp. Disc. Quicksilver Wks. 1772 IV. 226 Common mercury skilfully freed from its recrementitious and heterogeneous parts. 1757A. Cooper Distiller i. xx. (1760) 83 These recrementitious or drossy Parts of the Sugar. 1827Roberts Voy. Centr. Amer. 302 The recrementitious earth is thus easily separated. 1857Brinton in Todd Cycl. Anat. V. 400/2 The importance of these ‘recrementitious’ secretions. |