cibation

English

Etymology

From Latin cibatio, from cibare (“to feed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈbeɪʃən/, /saɪˈbeɪʃən/

Noun

cibation (countable and uncountable, plural cibations)

1. (obsolete) The act of taking food.
2. (obsolete, alchemy) The operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material.
   • 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, (please specify the GB page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     fermentation and cibation

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cibation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• bication