stercorate, v.
(ˈstɜːkəreɪt)
[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 Let. 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. |