单词 | defecation |
释义 | defecationn. 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. 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). < n.1623 |
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