excreate

English

Etymology

From Latin excreare, exscreare, from ex (“out”) + screare (“to hawk”).

Verb

excreate (third-person singular simple present excreates, present participle excreating, simple past and past participle excreated)

1. (obsolete) To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
   • 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:

     In the washing his mouth with a syringe forcibly, I put him upon excreating a great quantity of a filthy matter

References

• “excreate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• execrate, excetera, ex cetera

Latin

Verb

excreāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of excreō