remasticatev.
/riːˈmastᵻkeɪt/, U.S. /riˈmæstəˌkeɪt/ Chiefly Zoology.
transitive. To masticate (food or cud) again. Cf. ruminate v. 3a.In quot. 1806 figurative.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > feed on or forage for (of animals) [verb (transitive)] > ruminate
re-ruminate1617
remasticate1806
1806 J. West Lett. to Young Lady (ed. 3) I. 279 When re-masticated, we discern its peculiar pungency.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Remasticate, to chew or masticate again; to chew over and over, as in chewing the cud.
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 135 The aliment thus remasticated descends directly into the third stomach.
1887 Science 17 June 579/2 Such food does not require to be masticated, or remasticated.
1927 L. J. Horlacher Sheep Production i. iii. 44 The solid, dry residue is returned to the mouth to be remasticated.
1981 Jrnl. Animal Sci. 52 1150 Several of the polymers were regurgitated, remasticated and reswallowed.
2003 Jrnl. Mammalogy 84 897/1 Koalas regurgitate, remasticate, and reswallow small amounts of preingested leaf material.
Derivatives
reˈmasticated adj. that has been masticated again.
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1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Remasticated, chewed again or repeatedly.
1843 R. Owen Lect. Compar. Anat. Invertebr. Animals ix. 105 When it is presented to them in its remasticated state.
1994 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 165 303/2 The remasticated substance is generally re-swallowed, but sometimes ejected.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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