excreate
English
Verb
excreate (third-person singular simple present excreates, present participle excreating, simple past and past participle excreated)
- (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
References
- “excreate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
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