do one's ease
verbEtymology A clipped form of do one's easement, a former euphemism for easing one's bowels.
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Euphemistic, Obsolete To ease one's bowels; to defecate.
- Another time, the old Duke of Main, who was uſed to play the drol with him, coming ſoftly into his Bedchamber, and thruſting in his Bald-head, and Long-neck, in a poſture to make the King merry, it happened the King was come from doing his Eaſe, and ſpying him, he took the round Cover of the Cloſe-ſtool, and clap'd it on his Bald-Sconce, […]1620 May 21 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XVIII. To Sir James Crofts, from Paris.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section I, page 26:
- Synonyms
- do one's duty, do one's easement
- Derived terms
- closet of ease, house of ease, seat of ease