Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

excrementitious

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ex-cre-men-ti-tious
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.

Example Sentences

"wormwood, and the like, […]dissipate and digest any inutile or excrementitious moisture which lieth in the flesh"
"in their excretive faculty in evacuating the excrementicious humours"
"[It is an opinion of some moderns] that it [vital flame] requires constant eventilation, through the trachea and pores of the body for the discharge of a fuliginous and excrementitious vapour."
"Every Genius and Temper, as the sundry sorts of Beasts and living Creatures, have their proper excrement: and it is the part of a wise man to take notice of it, and to chuse what is profitable, as well as to abandon what is useless and excrementitious."
"You are to die— […] I absolve you from all except yourself, spiritual, bodily—that is eternal, (The corpse you will leave will be but excrementitious.)"

Etymology

Adapted borrowing of New Latin excrēmentītius + -ous. By surface analysis, excrement + -itious.

Inflected Forms

more excrementitious (comparative) most excrementitious (superlative)

Derived Forms

excrementitiously excrementitiousness

Synonyms

excrementitial

Questions

What does excrementitious mean?: Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
Where does excrementitious come from?: Adapted borrowing of New Latin excrēmentītius + -ous. By surface analysis, excrement + -itious.

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