excreate

English

Etymology

Latin excreare, exscreare, from ex (out) + screare (to hawk).

Verb

excreate (third-person singular simple present excreates, present participle excreating, simple past and past participle excreated)

  1. (obsolete) To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
    • 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: [] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston [], and B[enjamin] Took, [], →OCLC:
      In the washing his mouth with a syringe forcibly, I put him upon excreating a great quantity of a filthy matter

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Latin

Verb

excreāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of excreō
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