Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To masticate; chew.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To masticate; to chew; to eat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb literary to
chew ; tomasticate - verb literary to
eat
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
Etymologies
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Latin manducatus, past participle of manducare to chew. See manger.
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Examples
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Gospel, of Christ lifting up His eyes to heaven while consecrating this sacrament: and similarly it is said in the Gospel: "Take ye and eat" (_comedite_) without the addition of the word "all," whereas in celebrating this sacrament we say: "Lifting up His eyes to heaven," and again, "Take ye and eat (_manducate_) of this."
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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When hornlike nowadays modify you downbound to pennies, you crapper ever better alacritous from a business manducate with your home!
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