recrementn.

Brit.

/ˈrɛkrᵻm(ə)nt/, U.S.

/ˈrɛkrəm(ə)nt/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin recrēmentum.

Etymology: < classical Latin recrēmentum refuse, waste, dross ( < re- re- prefix + cernere cern v.¹ + -mentum -ment suffix). Compare Middle French recrement , French récrément (collective) impurities mixed with a substance (1553), waste products which remain within an organism (1752). Compare excrement n.¹

†1. Medicine and Biology. A waste product produced within an organism. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > [noun]

flux1382

superfluitya1398

outwaxing?1541

excrement1565

recrement1578

profluvium1603

redeliverage1612

evacuation1625

excretion1630

staxis1745

egesta1787

rejectments1818

rejectamenta1834

rejection1838

excreta1857

excretes1883

output1883

ejecta1890

the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [noun] > fluid secretion

moisturea1387

juice1398

suck1560

recrement1578

suffusion1608

fluid1705

succus1771

liquor1886

the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [noun] > transfer of nutritive materials or digestion > waste product

excrement1606

recrement1733

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 7 We can proue, that the inner [dangers] ought more to be feared: that is to say, the fuliginous recrements, inwardly ascendyng without any transpiratiue vent.

1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke ii. iv. 105 Diuers diseases..together send downe their seuerall or contrary recrements into the vrine.

1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall Digress. 351 The superfluous Serosities and other Recrements of the Blood.

1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry i. 4 Plants..have only fine Recrements, which are thrown off by the Leaves.

1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. v. 67 The vestiges of animal or vegetable recrements.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 180 Whatever recrement or other materials are co-acervated in any part of the intestines.

1865 Lancet 25 Feb. 217/1 In every circuit which the blood makes, when it reaches the pulmonary arteries it is loaded with the recrement, or the products of the decay of the body.

a. The superfluous or useless portion of a substance; refuse, dross, scum.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > refuse part of anything

dreg1531

tail1542

excrement1576

lee1593

garbage1598

recrement1599

tap-lash1623

ground1629

gross1708

tailings1889

1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 26 Now what are seedes and egges of wormes or foule But recrements of preexisting things.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 41 Light..discovers all the foulnesse of the most earthly recrements, it mixeth with none of them.

1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 57 It was thrown up by the waves with other recrements of the sea.

1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 165 [The rocks] did not appear to me a lava, or under any suspicion of having been the recrement of a Vulcano.

1778 New Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. Amurca, the name of an antiquated medicine, prepared by boiling the recrement or dregs of oil of olive to the consistence of honey, and used as an astringent.

1832 Times 2 May 3/6 It is fully admitted that all animal and vegetable decompositions can be corrected, and even water, charged with any organic recrement, rendered salubrious by charcoal.

1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Kêan, to scum, or throw off as recrement. Kêan, a particle of this nature. Kêaned, scummed in this wise.

1995 J. Banville Athena 10 And even later on, when I came to rummage through these recrements, they retained for me something of this desiccated, friable texture.

b. spec. The slag or dross separated from a metal during smelting. In later use in figurative context. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials produced from metalworking > [noun] > slag or scoria

cindera800

drossc1050

scoriaa1398

scum1526

scory1607

recrement1611

slag1612

scorium1681

slackstone1683

finery cinder1786

browsec1794

smithy slack1813

matte1825

sullage1843

forge-cinder1881

basic slag1888

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Chalcite, the recrement of brasse, cleauing to the sides of the furnaces wherein tis purified.

1679 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 1051 Slag..is the Recrement of Iron.

1727 P. Shaw & E. Chambers tr. H. Boerhaave New Method Chem. 68 (note) Beside detaching a large metalline recrement, not unlike bell-metal, the gold itself was left of a dirty colour.

1739 Gen. Chirurg. Dict. at Lithargyrum, in J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. A Recrement of Lead thrown off from Silver refined.

1871 A. Clark Workday Christianity iv. 95 The gathering of the people from the distances is like the gathering of various metals and ores with various percentages of dross, within a crucible, to be melted down and re-natured, with all the recrement consumed by the process.

1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 588/1 Metal so glowing as his must give off recrement: Moore preferred that his should spume in his diary rather than his life.

c. figurative. A superfluous or useless fragment, a remnant, a piece of rubbish; leftover or discarded material, rubbish, dregs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun]

wrakea1350

outcastingc1350

rammel1370

rubble1376

mullockc1390

refusec1390

filtha1398

outcasta1398

chaff?a1400

rubbishc1400

wastec1430

drossc1440

raff?1440

rascal1440

murgeonc1450

wrack1472

gear1489

garblec1503

scowl1538

raffle1543

baggage1549

garbage1549

peltry1550

gubbins?1553

lastage1553

scruff1559

retraict1575

ross1577

riddings1584

ket1586

scouring1588

pelf1589

offal1598

rummage1598

dog's meat1606

retriment1615

spitling1620

recrement1622

mundungus1637

sordes1640

muskings1649

rejectament1654

offscouring1655

brat1656

relicts1687

offage1727

litter1730

rejectamenta1795

outwale1825

detritus1834

junk1836

wastements1843

croke1847–78

sculch1847

debris1851

rumble1854

flotsam1861

jetsam1861

pelt1880

offcasting1893

rubbishry1894

littering1897

muckings1898

wastage1898

dreck1905

bruck1929

crap1934

garbo1953

clobber1965

dooky1965

grot1971

tippings-

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > persons of the lowest class (collectively)

chenaille1340

offal?a1425

putaylea1425

ribaldail1489

abject1526

offscouring1526

dreg1531

outsweeping1535

braggery1548

ribaldry1550

raff1557

sink1574

cattle1579

offscum1579

rabble1579

baggagery1589

scum1590

waste1592

menialty1593

baggage1603

froth1603

refuse1603

tag-rag1609

retriment1615

trasha1616

recrement1622

silts1636

garbage1648

riffle-raffle1668

raffle1670

riff-raff1678

scurf1688

mob1693

scouring1721

ribble-rabble1771

sweeping1799

clamjamphrie1816

ragabash1823

scruff1836

residuum1851

talent1882

1622 Bp. J. Hall Serm. Thebalds 29 Those other sullen mopish creatures are the..off-scouring and recrements of the world.

1698 R. Ferguson View of Ecclesiastick in Socks & Buskins 72 The greatliest offensive Recrements of the Mountebank's Stage.

1819 H. Busk Vestriad i. 748 Some coarse drab, the recrement of earth!

1882 J. B. Stallo Concepts Mod. Physics 292 A recrement of ancient tradition.

1908 J. Davidson Mammon & his Message i. iii. 24 Have you not wondered sometimes how men live Disgraced, dishonoured, shamed, uncharactered? It is by love: in the world's sight they seem Unhappiest recrement [etc.].

1964 Sociol. Q. 5 177 The process of retrieving the important materials from this recrement is time-consuming and difficult.

2006 Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch (Nexis) 8 Jan. f3 Richmond's best feature: The remnants of its courtly charm. Richmond's worst feature: The recrement of bigotry that hides behind the above.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	recrement
释义	recrementn. Brit. /ˈrɛkrᵻm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈrɛkrəm(ə)nt/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin recrēmentum. Etymology: < classical Latin recrēmentum refuse, waste, dross ( < re- re- prefix + cernere cern v.¹ + -mentum -ment suffix). Compare Middle French recrement , French récrément (collective) impurities mixed with a substance (1553), waste products which remain within an organism (1752). Compare excrement n.¹ †1. Medicine and Biology. A waste product produced within an organism. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > [noun] flux1382 superfluitya1398 outwaxing?1541 excrement1565 recrement1578 profluvium1603 redeliverage1612 evacuation1625 excretion1630 staxis1745 egesta1787 rejectments1818 rejectamenta1834 rejection1838 excreta1857 excretes1883 output1883 ejecta1890 the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [noun] > fluid secretion moisturea1387 juice1398 suck1560 recrement1578 suffusion1608 fluid1705 succus1771 liquor1886 the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [noun] > transfer of nutritive materials or digestion > waste product excrement1606 recrement1733 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 7 We can proue, that the inner [dangers] ought more to be feared: that is to say, the fuliginous recrements, inwardly ascendyng without any transpiratiue vent. 1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke ii. iv. 105 Diuers diseases..together send downe their seuerall or contrary recrements into the vrine. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall Digress. 351 The superfluous Serosities and other Recrements of the Blood. 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry i. 4 Plants..have only fine Recrements, which are thrown off by the Leaves. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. v. 67 The vestiges of animal or vegetable recrements. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 180 Whatever recrement or other materials are co-acervated in any part of the intestines. 1865 Lancet 25 Feb. 217/1 In every circuit which the blood makes, when it reaches the pulmonary arteries it is loaded with the recrement, or the products of the decay of the body. 2. a. The superfluous or useless portion of a substance; refuse, dross, scum. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > refuse part of anything dreg1531 tail1542 excrement1576 lee1593 garbage1598 recrement1599 tap-lash1623 ground1629 gross1708 tailings1889 1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 26 Now what are seedes and egges of wormes or foule But recrements of preexisting things. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 41 Light..discovers all the foulnesse of the most earthly recrements, it mixeth with none of them. 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 57 It was thrown up by the waves with other recrements of the sea. 1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 165 [The rocks] did not appear to me a lava, or under any suspicion of having been the recrement of a Vulcano. 1778 New Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. Amurca, the name of an antiquated medicine, prepared by boiling the recrement or dregs of oil of olive to the consistence of honey, and used as an astringent. 1832 Times 2 May 3/6 It is fully admitted that all animal and vegetable decompositions can be corrected, and even water, charged with any organic recrement, rendered salubrious by charcoal. 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Kêan, to scum, or throw off as recrement. Kêan, a particle of this nature. Kêaned, scummed in this wise. 1995 J. Banville Athena 10 And even later on, when I came to rummage through these recrements, they retained for me something of this desiccated, friable texture. b. spec. The slag or dross separated from a metal during smelting. In later use in figurative context. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials produced from metalworking > [noun] > slag or scoria cindera800 drossc1050 scoriaa1398 scum1526 scory1607 recrement1611 slag1612 scorium1681 slackstone1683 finery cinder1786 browsec1794 smithy slack1813 matte1825 sullage1843 forge-cinder1881 basic slag1888 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Chalcite, the recrement of brasse, cleauing to the sides of the furnaces wherein tis purified. 1679 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 1051 Slag..is the Recrement of Iron. 1727 P. Shaw & E. Chambers tr. H. Boerhaave New Method Chem. 68 (note) Beside detaching a large metalline recrement, not unlike bell-metal, the gold itself was left of a dirty colour. 1739 Gen. Chirurg. Dict. at Lithargyrum, in J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. A Recrement of Lead thrown off from Silver refined. 1871 A. Clark Workday Christianity iv. 95 The gathering of the people from the distances is like the gathering of various metals and ores with various percentages of dross, within a crucible, to be melted down and re-natured, with all the recrement consumed by the process. 1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 588/1 Metal so glowing as his must give off recrement: Moore preferred that his should spume in his diary rather than his life. c. figurative. A superfluous or useless fragment, a remnant, a piece of rubbish; leftover or discarded material, rubbish, dregs. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] wrakea1350 outcastingc1350 rammel1370 rubble1376 mullockc1390 refusec1390 filtha1398 outcasta1398 chaff?a1400 rubbishc1400 wastec1430 drossc1440 raff?1440 rascal1440 murgeonc1450 wrack1472 gear1489 garblec1503 scowl1538 raffle1543 baggage1549 garbage1549 peltry1550 gubbins?1553 lastage1553 scruff1559 retraict1575 ross1577 riddings1584 ket1586 scouring1588 pelf1589 offal1598 rummage1598 dog's meat1606 retriment1615 spitling1620 recrement1622 mundungus1637 sordes1640 muskings1649 rejectament1654 offscouring1655 brat1656 relicts1687 offage1727 litter1730 rejectamenta1795 outwale1825 detritus1834 junk1836 wastements1843 croke1847–78 sculch1847 debris1851 rumble1854 flotsam1861 jetsam1861 pelt1880 offcasting1893 rubbishry1894 littering1897 muckings1898 wastage1898 dreck1905 bruck1929 crap1934 garbo1953 clobber1965 dooky1965 grot1971 tippings- society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > persons of the lowest class (collectively) chenaille1340 offal?a1425 putaylea1425 ribaldail1489 abject1526 offscouring1526 dreg1531 outsweeping1535 braggery1548 ribaldry1550 raff1557 sink1574 cattle1579 offscum1579 rabble1579 baggagery1589 scum1590 waste1592 menialty1593 baggage1603 froth1603 refuse1603 tag-rag1609 retriment1615 trasha1616 recrement1622 silts1636 garbage1648 riffle-raffle1668 raffle1670 riff-raff1678 scurf1688 mob1693 scouring1721 ribble-rabble1771 sweeping1799 clamjamphrie1816 ragabash1823 scruff1836 residuum1851 talent1882 1622 Bp. J. Hall Serm. Thebalds 29 Those other sullen mopish creatures are the..off-scouring and recrements of the world. 1698 R. Ferguson View of Ecclesiastick in Socks & Buskins 72 The greatliest offensive Recrements of the Mountebank's Stage. 1819 H. Busk Vestriad i. 748 Some coarse drab, the recrement of earth! 1882 J. B. Stallo Concepts Mod. Physics 292 A recrement of ancient tradition. 1908 J. Davidson Mammon & his Message i. iii. 24 Have you not wondered sometimes how men live Disgraced, dishonoured, shamed, uncharactered? It is by love: in the world's sight they seem Unhappiest recrement [etc.]. 1964 Sociol. Q. 5 177 The process of retrieving the important materials from this recrement is time-consuming and difficult. 2006 Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch (Nexis) 8 Jan. f3 Richmond's best feature: The remnants of its courtly charm. Richmond's worst feature: The recrement of bigotry that hides behind the above. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1578
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