Citations:defœdate

Verb:

 * 1905, Alfred Richard Sennett, Garden Cities in Theory and Practice, Bemrose and Sons LTD.; Chapter IV., page #323:
 * The effect of this ascending ventilating shaft is to ventilate the reception‐rooms and to defœdate the bedrooms.

Verb: past tense of defœdate

 * 1859, Jacques Maurice, K. N. Pepper, And other Condiments, Rudd & Carleton; page #254:
 * The defœdated atmosphere was resonant with the tumult.
 * 1860, Charles Reade, The Eighth Commandment, Ticknor and Fields; page #254:
 * So then in the nineteenth century a law has passed enacting by equivoque, that garbled melodies, and mutilated defœdated works of musical art, shall be the food of the wretched Englishman ; and to this filthy hotch‐potch, which the foreign composer would disown by advertisement and bellman in the streets, the rascally English cook may forge that Master’s name.

Verb: present tense of defœdate

 * 1818, “A Water Drinker”, Some Enquiries into the Effects of Fermented Liquors, second edition, Query XI., page #355:
 * The jaundice is frequently a consequence of drinking which affects the liver ; when, by its enlargement, the biliary vessels and ducts are compressed, and the free egress of the bile prevented ; by which means it is, by absorbing vessels, carried into the circulation, and there defœdates the whole body.