English

Verb

defæcating

1. present participle of defæcate
   • 1873, Christopher Heath, Cases Of Colotomy, in The British Medical Journal; volume II, page 568:

     A married woman, aged 51, was admitted into University College Hospital on July 4th, 1873, with a history of three weeks’ obstruction of the bowels, following upon difficulty in defæcating of some months’ duration.