stercorare

stercorare, ~erare [CL] 1 (intr.) to defecate. si aves ~orant in quemcunque liquorem, tollatur ab eo stercus Theod. Pen. I 7. 10; 1416 equi super corpora mortuorum ibidem sepulta stantes ~orant (Vis.) Fabr. York 248; a1425 ~oro, to shyte (Medulla) MED s. v. shiten; schyton, merdo, -as ‥ ~oro, -as, -avi PP. 2 (tr.): a (in quot. p. ppl.) to soil with excrement (also fig.). b (agr.) to cover or enrich the soil of (field) with dung or manure. a sicque ‥ [anima mea] quasi cenosis paludibus ~orata, penitentie fructus producere mereatur Ailr. Serm. 441A; somnia significantia dominium melancolie ‥ esse in carcere ligatum, necatum diabolo, vestem esse ~oratam, et similia M. Scot Phys. 50.  b ~eratos agros, non ~oratos dicas, quibus stercus ad fecundandum infertur Bede Orth. 49; ~orare agros vel fimo pascere Neckam Ut. 113.