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mastication|mæstɪˈkeɪʃən|
Also 7 mastucation.
[ad. late L. masticātiōn-em, n. of action f. masticā-re to masticate. Cf. F. mastication.]
1. The action of masticating or chewing.
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Confectio escarum..Mastication or chewing of the meate. 1615Crooke Body of Man 134 All Aliments..after mastication or chewing..are swallowed. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iii. Hydriot. etc. 56 After a fuller mastication, and salivous mixture. 1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Comic Wks. (Bohn) III. 210 To put something for mastication between the upper and lower mandibles. 1880Günther Fishes 329 Dentition..adapted for the prehension and mastication of crustaceous..animals.
fig.a1631Donne Serm. lxiii. (1640) 637 It is writ in gall and wormwood..; but if we can bring it..to that mastication, that rumination, which is [etc.].
†b. = manducation. Obs.
1601Bp. W. Barlow Defence 128 They, which..haue turned..the supper into a spectacle..feeding the peoples eyes with the priestes eleuation, and sole mastucation.
2. The action or process of pulping (gutta-percha).
1881Times 18 Apr. 4/6 The gutta percha is not masticated in any way, Mr. T. holding that mastication utterly destroys the material. 1885C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts Ser. iv. 1/2 At some works this process of ‘mastication’ [in waterproofing] is omitted. |