Citations:defœdation

Noun: alternative form of

 * 1813, Robert William and Thomas Bateman, A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases; second edition, page #301:
 * Forestus, who held a similar office at Alcmaer and Delfty, in the same century, affirms that a very small proportion of the persons who wandered about the Low Countries, as lepers and beggars, were true lepers ; but were merely affected with Scabies, or some external defœdation of the skin.
 * 1825, John Mason Good, The Study of Medicine; second edition, Volume IV, pages 271–272:
 * This may sometimes by done by aperients : but when we are sure of an acrimonious defœdation in this organ, it will be the shortest way to commence with an emetic.
 * 1865, Horace Mann in Life and Works of Horace Mann, Walker, Fuller, and Company; page #600:
 * There is no spot or place among animals or men which the common uses of tobacco would not sink to a lower defœdation.
 * 1895, J. R. Charlton in Leaflets for Farmers; page #1903:
 * Partial or total paralysis follows, marked by involuntary defœdation and micturition, with inability to use the hind parts, or the loss of motor power may extend over the body, compelling the sufferer to assume a recumbent position.
 * 1905, Alfred Richard Sennett, Garden Cities in Theory and Practice, Bemrose and Sons LTD.; Volume I, Chapter IV, page #342:
 * This remark also applies to the vitiation of the atmosphere from artificial illumination, for if we refer again to the hypothetical chamber and to the table of the products of combustion, it will be seen that it would have been necessary, in order to reduce the amount of defœdation of the air as regards CO₂ to the standard of that of a manufacturing town, to have changed the whole of the air in the chamber during the ten hours, as given in the second column.