"manducation" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: manducations [plural]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin mandūcātiō, from mandūcō (“to chew, to eat”) + -tiō. Compare French manducation. By surface analysis, manducate + -ion. Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|la-lat|mandūcātiō}} Learned borrowing from Late Latin mandūcātiō, {{af|la|mandūcō|-tiō|nocat=1|t1=to chew, to eat}} mandūcō (“to chew, to eat”) + -tiō, {{cog|fr|manducation}} French manducation, {{surf|en|manducate|-ion}} By surface analysis, manducate + -ion Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} manducation (countable and uncountable, plural manducations)
  1. The act of eating. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-manducation-en-noun-DwChyj1A
  2. (Christianity) The belief that eating the bread of Eucharist is eating the actual flesh of Jesus. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-manducation-en-noun-l7hYEKG0 Categories (other): Christianity, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ion, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 89 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ion: 44 56 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 15 85 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 90 Topics: Christianity
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: manducate

Inflected forms

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