v. [f. L. stercorāt-, ppl. stem of stercorāre, f. stercor-, stercus dung.]
trans. To manure or dung.
1623. Cockeram, I. Stercorat, to empt dung.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 242. If it be transplanted into a soyl well stercorated.
1665. Havers, P. della Valle’s Trav. E. India, 112. The Houses whose pavements are thus stercorated, are good against the Plague.
1672. G. Thomson, Lett. to H. Stubbe, 17. Those Baconical Ignoramus’s, if they catch this Brazen-face within their Precincts, will … Stercorate such a durty person, that he may fructifie the better hereafter.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Stercorated, dunged, manured with Dung.
1821. Scott, Pirate, iv. It savoured of the earth … to have a man’s mind always grovelling in mould, stercorated or unstercorated.
