Stēr'co-ra-nist, n.

n. [L. Lat. stercoranista, Fr. stercoraniste, from Lat. stercus, stercoris, dung.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a party in the fifth and sixth centuries, who held that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo the process of digestion, so that the divine body, if materially present, must be changed into the fecal substance;—so called in contempt.