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Webster 1913 Edition
Feculent
Fec′u-lent
,Adj.
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.
Definition 2024
feculent
feculent
See also: féculent
English
Alternative forms
- fæculent (obsolete)
Adjective
feculent (comparative more feculent, superlative most feculent)
- 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.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 84:
References
- feculent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913