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Webster 1913 Edition
Mastication
Masˊti-ca′tion
,Noun.
[L.
masticatio
: cf. F. mastication
.] The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food.
Mastication
is a necessary preparation of solid aliment, without which there can be no good digestion. Arbuthnot.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mastication
MASTICA'TION
,Noun.
Mastication is a necessary preparation of solid aliment, without which there can be no good digestion.
Definition 2024
mastication
mastication
English
Noun
mastication (plural 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.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
- The process of crushing as though chewed.