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Manducation vs Mastication - What's the difference?

manducation | mastication |

As nouns the difference between manducation and mastication

is that manducation is the act of eating while mastication is the process of chewing.

manducation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of eating.
  • (Christianity) The belief that eating the bread of Eucharist is eating the actual flesh of Jesus.

    • References

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

    mastication

    English

    Noun

    (mastications)
  • (physiology) The process of chewing.
  • *1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
  • *:"It is more blasphemous than that thing which is swiping our meat," I replied, for whatever the thing was, it had leaped upon our deer and was devouring it in great mouthfuls which it swallowed without mastication . The creature appeared to be a great lizard at least ten feet high, with a huge, powerful tail as long as its torso, mighty hind legs and short forelegs.
  • The process of crushing as though chewed.