excreate

To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.

Verb

  1. To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
    • In the washing his mouth with a syringe forcibly, I put him upon excreating a great quantity of a filthy matter - 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for...

Origin

From Latin excreare, exscreare, from ex (“out”) + screare (“to hawk”).

Forms

excreates excreating excreated