mastication
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Etymology edit
From Late Latin masticātiō, equivalent to masticate + -ion.
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mastication (countable and uncountable, plural mastications)
- (physiology) The process of chewing.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, part I, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, February 1927, →OCLC, book I, page 1002:
- “It is no more blasphemous than that thing which is swiping our meat,” I replied, for whatever the thing was, it had leaped upon our deer and was devouring it in great mouthfuls which it swallowed without mastication. The creature appeared to be a great lizard at least ten feet high, with a huge, powerful tail as long as its torso, mighty hind legs and short forelegs.
- The process of crushing as though chewed.
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process of chewing
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mastication f (plural mastications)
Further reading edit
- “mastication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.