a. [f. L. stercorāce-us, f. stercor-, stercus dung: see -ACEOUS.]

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  1.  Consisting of, containing or pertaining to fæces.

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1731.  Arbuthnot, Nat. Aliments, i. (1735), 11. A putrid stercoraceous Taste and Odour.

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1759.  Mills, trans. Duhamel’s Husb., I. viii. (1762), 19. The stercoraceous salts of the dung.

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1787.  [see STERCORARIOUS, 1785 quot.].

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1834.  Rep. Sel. Comm. Metrop. Sewers, 115. Pumping of stercoraceous filth is practised sometimes every night.

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1876.  Bristowe, Th. & Pract. Med. (1878), 662. This discharge of ‘stercoraceous’ matter by the mouth is due … to the fact that [etc.].

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  fig.  1832.  Westm. Rev., XVII. 522. A sneaking stercoraceous policy.

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  b.  Path. Of vomiting: Consisting of fæces, fæcal.

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1754–64.  Smellie, Midwifery, III. 516. The Child had that night Stercoraceous vomitings.

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1898.  Rose & Carless, Man. Surg., 931. This shock … is … followed by vomiting, at first gastric, then bilious, and finally stercoraceous or fæcal.

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  2.  Ent. Of certain beetles, flies, etc.: Frequenting or feeding on dung.

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1892.  Century Dict.

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  Hence Stercoraceously adv.

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1894.  J. M. Walsh, Coffee, 142. The appreciation of such stercoraceously deposited beans by the natives being an undoubted fact.

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