DEFECATE

a. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified. Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense. Bates.

2.
v.

To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine. To defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber. Boyle.

3.
v.

To free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear; to purify, as from that which materializes. We defecate the notion from materiality. Glanvill. Defecated from all the impurities of sense. Bp. Warburton.

4.
v.

To become clear, pure, or free. Goldsmith.

5.
v.

To void excrement.

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