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Adj.

(Physiol.)

Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.

Adj.

Pertaining to excrement; containing excrement; consisting in matter evacuated or proper to be evacuated from the animal body.

excrementitious ‎(comparative more excrementitious, superlative most excrementitious)

Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
- Bishop Berkeley
  [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.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:
  "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."