manducation

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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manducation f (plural manducations)

1. manducation (eating)

• “manducation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.