manducation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin manducatio, from mandūcō (“to chew, to eat”) +‎ -tiō; alternatively or French manducation.

Noun

manducation (countable and uncountable, plural manducations)

1. The act of eating.
2. (Christianity) The belief that eating the bread of Eucharist is eating the actual flesh of Jesus.
   • 1590-1600, Richard Hooker, Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, volume V.lxvii.9:

     a literal, corporal and oral manducation of the very substance of his flesh and blood

Related terms

• manducate

French

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Noun

manducation f (plural manducations)

1. manducation (eating)

Further reading

• “manducation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.