▪ I. excremental, a.1
(ɛkskrɪˈmɛntəl)
[f. excrement1 + -al1.]
† 1. Pertaining to, or consisting of, the dregs or baser part of any substance. Cf. excrement1 i. Of food: Consisting largely of matter useless for nutrition. Obs.
| 1576 Baker Jewell of Health 193 b, Vitrioll containeth much of the waterie and excrementall moysture in it. 1600 Tourneur Transf. Met. xxvi. 179 The flesh, the soule's imprisoner, Of excrementale earth is wholy fact. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 525 Swines flesh..is less excremental then Pigs flesh, and therefore more nutrible. 1620 Venner Via Recta (1650) 85 They have in their flesh much moist and excrementall juyce. 1655 Moufet & Benn. Health's Improv. (1746) 183 A Cuckow, whose much spitting argueth a corrupt and excremental Flesh. 1662 R. Mathew Unl. Alch. §110. 180 To take a few grains of the excremental parts, out of an ounce of the substantial parts. |
2. Of the nature of excrement or evacuated matter.
| 1574 Newton Health Mag. 2 The filth and excrementall matter of the bodie is thereby [by exercise] scattered and avoyded. 1658 Sir. T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. vii. (ed. 4) 115 Whether those little dusty particles upon the lower side of the leaves be seeds and seminal parts, or rather..excremental separations, we have not been able to determine. 1878 Foster Phys. ii. i. §i. 183 The nutritious digested material is separated from the indigested or excremental material. |
b. fig. (cf. excrement1 3).
| 1591 Greene Disc. Coosnage (1859) 40 Vipers of the world, and an excrementall reversion of sin. 1593 Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 159 In a damnable state are you, O ye excrementall vessels of lust. |
3. Pertaining to or consisting of excrements; concerned with or proceeding from excrements.
| 1599 A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 139/2 When any man his excrementalle intestine issueth out. 1624 Donne Serm. xvii. 164 a, The spitting places and excremental corners of the Streets. 1762 Lloyd Genius, Envy & Time 97 Mere excremental maggots, bred In poets topsy-turvy head. 1875 W. Houghton Sk. Brit. Insects 115 Besides excremental food they prey on insects. 1884 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 15 Nov. 2/4 In excremental contaminations especially lies the greatest risk [of cholera poison]. |
▪ II. † excreˈmental, a.2 Obs. rare.
[f. excrement2 + -al1.]
Of the nature of an outgrowth or excrescence.
| 1644 Milton Areop. (Arb.) 45 Her whitenesse is but an excrementall whitenesse. 1656 Artif. Handsom. 46 Art [the polling of the hair, paring the nails, etc.] doth dayly turn..those things which are but excrementall, to be ornamentall. |