English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin cibatio, from cibare (to feed).

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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