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单词 defecation
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defecationn.

Brit. /ˌdɛfᵻˈkeɪʃn/, /ˌdiːfᵻˈkeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌdɛfəˈkeɪʃən/
Forms: 1600s– defaecation, 1600s– defecation.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin defaecation-, defaecatio.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin defaecation-, defaecatio action of purifying (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian) < classical Latin dēfaecāt- , past participial stem of dēfaecāre defecate v. + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare earlier defecate v.In sense 2 originally after French défécation (1814 in this sense; 1660 in sense ‘action of purifying a substance from impurities’).
1.
a. The action or process by which a liquid is separated from dregs or lees; the action of cleansing, purifying, or clarifying something; an instance of this. In later use: spec. the removal of impurities from plant juices as an early step in the refining of sugar, typically by means of the addition of lime (calcium oxide) and heating; an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > clarifying liquids > [noun]
clarifyinga1475
fining1559
clarification1617
defecation1623
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii. sig. F6/2 To Take away dregs, Defægate [sic]. A Taking away thereof, Defæcation.
1633 J. Hart Κλινικη ii. xv. 196 When it [sc. hydromel] is tunned up, for better defecation and purging, in hot weather, especially in hot countries, it may be set into the Sunne for certaine daies.
1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ (ed. 2) 218 Depuration and defæcation..of the blood and vital spirits.
1712 J. White De Recta Sanguinis Missione v. 77 That crude Matter which obstructed this before, is separated,..not unlike to that natural Defecation which we see in Wines.
1734 J. Atkins Navy-surgeon 233 The Remainder, after such a Defæcation, becomes more Homogenous.
1847 Monthly Jrnl. Agric. (N.Y.) Mar. 426 The first point in the manufacture of a sugar is a good defecation, without which all subsequent operations proceed badly.
1865 Standard 26 Jan. 2/3 Unless some means are taken for the defecation of the sewage before it is discharged into the river.
1881 Daily News 6 June 3/2 Defecation of the beet juice with lime, carbonation with carbonic acid.
1922 Cracker Baker Nov. 59/3 By the process of defecation the juice is heated to a temperature at which the nitrogenous or protein matter will coagulate.
1984 B. Thompson in R. Woods & J. Woodward Urban Dis. & Mortality vi. 132 The continuing shortages of water and the problems experienced by the Town council regarding the defecation of the existing sewage at the outfall.
2012 Jrnl. Agric. & Food Chem. 60 2916/2 The clarification process used in Australian sugar cane factories is simple defecation.
b. figurative. The action or an act of purifying a person or thing by the removal of corruption, coarseness, sin, etc.; moral, mental, or spiritual purification. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > virtue > purity > [noun] > moral purification
cleansingc1000
purgationc1384
purgatoryc1400
circumcision1526
purificationa1560
defecation1632
castification1653
1632 P. Fletcher Joy in Tribulation 50 A defaecation (as I may say) or purifying it, taking away the rust, soyle and filth which it gathereth by our corruption.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. §ix. 142 A defecation of his faculties and an opportunity of Prayer.
1769 D'Alenzon tr. ‘Hoamchi-Vam’ Bonze I. 200 The punishment, probation, and defecation of the lapsed angels.
1799 Aurora Dec. 309 Man, when in this state of vastation or defecation, avoids evils of life as sins against God.
2. The action or an act of passing faeces.Now the most common sense.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [noun]
purgationa1387
shitting1386
officec1395
outpassinga1398
subduction?a1425
easementa1438
cuckingc1440
siegea1475
evacuation?1533
stool1541
egestion1547
dunging1558
purging1579
stooling1599
cackc1600
motion1602
dejection1605
excretion1640
exclusion1646
purgament1650
exoneration1651
disenteration1654
orduring1654
crapping1673
passage1681
seat1697
opening1797
defecation1825
excreting1849
poopc1890
movement1891
job1899
shit?1927
crap1937
dump1942
soiling1943
gick1959
jobbie1981
pooh1981
1825 tr. F. J. V. Broussais Conversat. Theory & Pract. Physiol. Med. vi. 94 It is upon this internal surface that the food is received and digested; it also contains the residue, to the time of its expulsion, which we call defecation [Fr. défécation].
1871 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Nov. 524/2 I have had cases..where, owing to increased size and weight of the uterus, from congestion or other causes, or from difficulty of defæcation, there has been partial prolapse.
1926 J. Taft in K. Young Source Bk. Social Psychol. iii. xiv. 372 The peculiar nature of her infantile experience with defecation and toilet training.
1981 V. Kulvinskas et al. Life in 21st Cent. iv. 292 You do Basti in order to wash out or rinse out the colon after it has been emptied through the morning defecation upon awakening.
2011 M. Osler Rain Tree v. 144 Footprints on a lavatory seat were puzzling until we realised that squatting was the natural position for defecation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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