manducation

English

Noun

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.
    • Richard Hooker, Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (V.lxvii.9)
      a literal, corporal and oral manducation of the very substance of his flesh and blood
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