excrementitious

== English == === Etymology === Adapted borrowing of New Latin excrēmentītius +‎ -ous. By surface analysis, excrement +‎ -itious. === Adjective === excrementitious (comparative more excrementitious, superlative most excrementitious) Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement. Synonym: excrementitial 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113: "Every Genius and Temper, as the sundry sorts of Beasts and living Creatures, have their proper excrement: and it is the part of a wise man to take notice of it, and to chuse what is profitable, as well as to abandon what is useless and excrementitious." ==== Derived terms ==== === References ===