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
The Saguerus Rumphii, or Metroxylon Sagus, which is found in the Eastern Islands of the Indian Ocean, yields a feculent matter.
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
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
Kings of England used to touch for 'the king's evil,' and lay their pure fingers upon feculent masses of corruption.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander