a. nonce-wd. [f. as prec. + -IC.] Pertaining to or concerned with dung.
1880. Ruskin, in 19th Cent., VII. 944. A philosophy developes itself, partly satiric, partly consolatory, concerned only with the regenerative vigour of manure, and the necessary obscurities of fimetic Providence; showing how everybody’s fault is somebody else’s, how infection has no law, digestion no will, and profitable dirt no dishonour.
