manducation
English
editNoun
editmanducation (countable and uncountable, plural manducations)
- The act of eating.
- (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
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Noun
editmanducation f (plural manducations)
- manducation (eating)
Further reading
edit- “manducation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.