stercoranism
/ˈstɜːkəɹənɪzm̩/
Etymology
From Medieval Latin stercoranista + -ism (“forming the names of schools of thought”), from stercor- (“dung, excrement”) + -anista, from root of stercus (“dung, excrement”) + suffixal construction from -ānus (“of, pertaining to”) + -ista (“one who practices or believes”).
noun
- The belief or doctrine of stercoranists.“Great conteſts have ariſen in the church of Rome, vvhether the ſacramental bread and vvine vvere ſo far digeſted, as that ſome part of them, like other food, vvas turned into excrements: thoſe vvho held the affirmative, vvent by the name of Stercorarians or Stercoraniſtæ. Cardinal Humbert, in his anſvver to Nicetas Pectoratus, treats him as a Stercoraniſt, merely for holding that the euchariſt bre”