a. Also 6 -us. [ad. L. stercorōs-us, f. stercor-, stercus dung: see -OUS.] Stercoraceous, excrementitious.
1542. Boorde, Dyetary, xvi. (1870), 272. A swyne … with stercorus matter doth fede in Englande.
1880. Swinburne, in Fortn. Rev., Dec., 719. Unlike Dante, he never permitted the too fetid contact of their stercorous feculence to befoul the sandal of his Muse.
