a. [ad. L. cloācālis, f. cloāca; see prec. and -AL.] Pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of, a cloaca or sewer.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Cloacal, pertaining to such filth.
1854. Badham, Halieut., 91. The thousand cloacal pipes … continually pouring out the abominations of the city.
b. Phys.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 114/2. The intestine [of fishes] … proceeds … to terminate in a cloacal sac.
1879. trans. Haeckel’s Evol. Man, II. xix. 146. The brain of the Cloacal Animals has remained at a much lower stage of development.
Also (chiefly nonce-wds.) Cloacaline, Cloacean, Cloacinal, Cloacinean adjs. = prec.
1814. Reprint Harington’s Metam., Title-p., The Metamorphosis of Ajax; a Cloacinean Satire.
1859. Sala, Tw. round Clock (1861), 379. Infected backyard and cloacean staircase.
1879. G. Meredith, Egoist, II. ii. 28. We, sir, dedicate genius to the cloacaline floods.
1887. J. M. Wilson, Ess. & Addr., 61. This cloacinal region of morals.
