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manducation

The English word “manducation” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

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

Etymology

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

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