| 单词 |
manducation |
| 释义 |
manducation|mændjuːˈkeɪʃən|
[ad. L. mandūcātiōn-em, n. of action of mandūcā-re to manducate. Cf. F. manducation (Theol.).]
1. The action of eating. Chiefly Theol. (following the patristic use of L. manducatio), the term applied (usually with qualification, as carnal, corporal, literal, oral, real, sacramental, spiritual) to the act of participation in the Eucharist.
1551Gardiner Explic. True Cath. Faith 9 b, The mysterie of corporall manducation. 1553Kennedy Compend. Tract. in Wodrow Soc. Misc. (1844) 167 He makis mentioun baith of spirituale and reale manducatioun. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxvii. §9 A Literall, Corporall and Orall manducation of the very substance of his flesh and bloud. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. xv. §17 After the manducation of the Paschal lamb it was the custom of the nation to sit down to a second supper. 1660― Duct. Dubit. ii. iii. rule 12 §11 Sacramental manducation. 1737Waterland Eucharist (ed. 2) 453 None give so great advantage to the Figurists, as those that contend for oral manducation. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Grace bef. meat, The received ritual having prescribed these forms to the solitary ceremony of manducation. 1833Rock Hierurg. (1892) I. 197 A manducation of His real flesh and blood. 1850E. H. Browne Exp. 39 Articles xxviii. §1 (1874) 679 Did they intend a spiritual manducation—an eating spiritually and a drinking in by the soul of the life-giving efficacy of the Body broken and the Blood shed?
2. The action of chewing.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 139 They who chaw not well, or..passe over the triple order of manducation, are ill nourished. 1746R. James Introd. Moufet's Health's Improv. 2 Manducation, or Chewing, is performed by means of the Biventer, or Digastric Muscles. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. 416 The trophi or organs of manducation. 1852Dana Crust. ii. 991 The mandible has a lateral process for manducation. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. i. 69 Powerful apparatus for the seizure and manducation of vegetable and animal prey. |
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