excrementitious

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excrementitious

[ek″skrĕ-men-tish´us]

1. pertaining to excrement.

2. fecal.

ex·cre·men·ti·tious

(eks'krē-men-tish'ŭs),

Relating to any excrement.

ex·cre·men·ti·tious

(eks'krĕ-men-tish'ŭs)

Relating to any excrement.

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Indeed, imagining this to be another version of Thoreau's poetic and excrementitious sand foliage (if not also an interior view of the cow that crunches Whitman's grass), we could re-word Thoreau to say, "The Maker of this earth but patented digestion" (207).

"Nature's stomach": Emerson, Whitman, and the poetics of digestion

I counted ten different terms, some of them drawn from 19th-century reports the author cites: excreta, fecal matter, human waste, excrement, most disgusting and filthy matter, residuals, manurial resources (my personal favourite), solid refuse, excrementitious deposits (a close second, in my opinion) and simple filth.

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Among the social costs: gutters in Edinburgh overflowed "excrementitious and other refuse of at least 50,000 persons," and in Bristol 46.8 percent of industrial workers lived with their families in one-room apartments.