recrementitious

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recrementitious (comparative more recrementitious, superlative most recrementitious)

  1. (archaic) Of or pertaining to recrement; consisting of recrement or dross.
    • 1680, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chemical Principles:
      there are in most mercuries, either recrementitious particles, or at least some loose adherences, separable from the rest of the body

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