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manducation

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

noun manducations

countable, uncountable The act of eating.
countable, uncountable The belief that eating the bread of Eucharist is eating the actual flesh of Jesus. a literal, corporal and oral manducation of the very substance of his flesh and blood

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@misc{manducation_2026,
  title = {manducation},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/manducation},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}