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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

excretorily en · ADV

Etymology

From excretory + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (rare) In an excretory manner.
    • Still, novelists love those kinky, stinky Nazis — like Norman Mailer ’s excretorily fixated young Adi Hitler in “The Castle in the Forest” and A. N. Wilson ’s full-grown flatulent Führer in “Winnie and Wolf” — with their telltale mania for purity, order and efficiency. 2009 March 8, David Gates, “The Monster in the Mirror”, in New York Times:

Forms

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most excretorily Degree=Sup lexicographic
more excretorily Degree=Cmp lexicographic