manducation

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English

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Noun

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manducation (countable and uncountable, plural manducations)

  1. The act of eating.
  2. (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

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manducation f (plural manducations)

  1. manducation (eating)

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