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Meaning of merdurinous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Consisting of excrement and urine.

archaic, rare

Examples

“163?, John Taylor, A Bawd Theſe are the right paternes of an induſtrious Bawd, for ſhee pickes her living out of the layſtall or dunghil of our vices ; if ſhe thrive and grow fat, it is with the Merdurinous draffe of our imperfections […]”
“16??, Ben Jonson, Epigrams Of all your Night-tubs, when the Carts do cluster, Who shall discharge first his merdurinous Load […]”
“[…] Catholics put their god through a double process of Transubstantiation, according to Oldham, one as merdurinous as it was miraculous: 'Down goes the tiny saviour at a bit', he writes with satirical relish, 'To be digested, and at length beshit […]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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