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Defecation   Listen
noun
Defecation  n.  
1.
The act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification.
2.
(Physiol.) The act or process of voiding excrement.





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"Defecation" Quotes from Famous Books



... regression leading us into infantile thinking and feeling; we have seen it clearly enough in the comparison with the myths. And here it is to be noticed how great an interest children take in the process of defecation. I should not have considered this worthy of notice, did not the hermetic symbolism, as we shall see later, actually use in parallel cases the expressions "fimus," "urina puerorum," etc., in quite an unmistakable ...
— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer


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