a. Obs. rare. [f. L. spūtāmin-, spūtāmen, f. spūtāre to spit.] Of the nature of spittle; characterized by the presence or flow of saliva.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 25 b/2. They retayne in them a certayne sputaminous humiditye which descendeth out of the heade. Ibid., 51/1. Those which haue passede through the driveling or sputaminouse climate [= climacter].
