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Webster 1913 Edition


Feculent

Fec′u-lent

,
Adj.
[L.
faeculentus
, fr.
faecula
: cf. F.
féculent
. See
Fecula
.]
Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.
Both his hands most filthy
feculent
.
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Feculent

FEC'ULENT

,
Adj.
Foul with extraneous or impure substances; muddy; thick; turbid; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter.

Definition 2024


feculent

feculent

See also: féculent

English

Alternative forms

Adjective

feculent (comparative more feculent, superlative most feculent)

  1. Dirty with faeces or other impurities; turbid; foul, filthy, fetid.
    • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 84:
      At this time in history the streets of London were as foul, feculent and disease-ridden as a series of interconnected dunghills, twice as dangerous as a battlefield, and as infrequently maintained as the lower cells of an asylum dungeon.

References

  • feculent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913