To excrete feces from one's bowels.
To pass (something) as excrement; to purge.
To clean (something) of dregs, impurities, etc.; to purify.
[I]f vve defæcate the notion from materiality, […] it vvill be as hard to apprehend, as that an empty vviſh ſhould remove Mountains: a ſuppoſition vvhich if realized, vvould relieve Siſyphus.
Freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense.
Borrowed from Latin dēfaecātus, the perfect passive participle of dēfaecō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). See also faeces; cognate with French déféquer.
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