feculent

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The problems created by that many birds, fresh back from a day of feeding, is feculent.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2018

Hot tea, turbid beer, and feculent liquors will have the same effect.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

In the throat of a feculent pit is the beard of a bloody-red sedge; And a foam like the foam of a fit sweats out of the lips of the ledge.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

Within the last three or four years, considerable quantities of a feculent substance, called Tous les mois, have been imported from the West Indies.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

By this and similar conversations I elucidate a theory I have formed about the human race, viz: Greasy corpulence always has, as its first cause, a diet with too much farinacious or feculent substance.

From The Physiology of Taste by Robinson, Fayette