English

Verb

defæcated

1. Obsolete spelling of defecated; simple past tense and past participle of defæcate
   • 1901, edited by Frank P. Foster, The New York Medical Journal, A. H. Elliott Publishing Co.; volume LXXIII, page 464:

     It so happened that of six persons arrested on suspicion, four of them accused a particular one as the murderer, and volunteered the information that he had also defæcated in the victim’s bed.