defecate, defacate

t. [DEFECATE, a.] 1. Lit.: To purify liquors from dregs, lees, or other foulne ; to purify, to clarify, to clear. "I practised a way to defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber."-Boyle. *2. Fig .: To purify or clear from any extraneous mixture. "We defecate the notion from materiality, and abstract quantity, place, and all kind of corporeity from it." Glanvill. IMG:content-2007.png:[blocks in formation] †def-e-ca-tion-ist, s. [Eng. defecation; -ist.] On who practices or is in favor of defecation. děf-ě-cā-tör, s. [Lat.] Sugar - manufac .: An apparatus for the removal from a saccharine liquid of the immature and feculent matters which would impair the concentrated result.