Obs. Also 7 feculancy, fœculency. [ad. L. fæculentia: see prec. and -ENCY.]
1. = FECULENCE 1.
1651. Biggs, New Disp., ¶ 85. By reason of the sequestration from the delinquency of mortality, feculency, and turbulency.
1671. J. Webster, Metallogr., viii. 122–3. All the Adeptists do seem to acknowledge a twofold way of the generation of Gold; one when the mercurial and sulphureous steams (of which Metals are bred) being pure before and at their conjunction, do meet with a pure matrix, that hath nothing of impure sulphureous fœculency, nor other earthly or waterish uncleanness to mix with them, and to pollute them, then pure Gold.
1679. J. Goodman, The Penitent Pardoned, III. v. (1713), 347. Spiritual Bodies … raised and sublimed from this drossy feculency.
2. = FECULENCE 2; lit. and fig. In pl. Impurities.
1607. Topsell, Serpents (1653), 811. I cold never as yet finde other excrementitious substances drossy matter, or other feculency.
1655–87. H. More, App. Antid. (1712), 215. The feculency of urine, that sinks to the bottom of the glass.
1680. Boyle, Scept. Chem., VI. 418. That crust or dry feculancy … called Tartar.
1772. Jackson, in Phil. Trans., LXIII. 6. The reciprocal attraction of the particles of isinglass and the feculencies of the beer.
1822. Burrowes, Cycl., X. 287/1. The liquor sometimes thickens too fast to permit the feculencies to rise in the scum.
