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scatology /sca·tol·o·gy/ (skah-tol´ah-je)
1. study and analysis of feces, as for diagnosis. 2. a preoccupation with feces, filth, and obscenities.scatolog´icalscatolog´ic
scatology [skatol′əjē] Etymology: Gk, skatos, dung, logos, science the science of feces. Also called coprology. Scatology (1) The study of faeces, as in medicine, palaeontology, or biology (2) The study of excrement; metaphorically, study of material defined as obscene and pertaining to sexual activity scatology [skah-tol´ah-je] 1. study and analysis of feces, as for diagnostic purposes. 2. a preoccupation with feces and filth. adj., adj scatolog´ic.
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I cannot stand anything scatalogical, anything physically disgusting . Swift, a literary satirist like Rabelais, demolishes the illusion of the grace and delicacy of women with his scatalogical poems. Cox, The Devil and the Sacred in English Drama, 1350-1642 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), throughout, but especially on 23, where Cox employs a curiously selective criterion for establishing the "seriousness" of theatrical devils, so that he offers as the one supposed exception proving his rule, the following: "Only N-Town includes the merest suggestion of scatalogical humor in the first play: when Lucifer encounters hell, he exclaims, 'For fere of Fyre a fart I cracke |
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