English Explanatory Dictionary

manducation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of eating.
  2. The belief that eating the bread of Eucharist is eating the actual flesh of Jesus.

Word forms

manducation manducations

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin mandūcātiō, from mandūcō (“to chew, to eat”) + -tiō. Compare French manducation. By surface analysis, manducate + -ion.

Related words

manducate
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