manducate

English

Etymology

From Latin manducatus, past participle of manducare (to chew). See manger.

Verb

manducate (third-person singular simple present manducates, present participle manducating, simple past and past participle manducated)

  1. (literary) To chew; to masticate.
  2. (literary) To eat.
    • 1654, Jeremy Taylor, The Real Presence []
      If we manducate bread , then 'tis capable of all the natural alterations , and it cannot be denied . But if we manducate Christ s body after a natural manner , what worse thing is it that it descends into the guts than that it goes into the stomach

Italian

Verb

manducate

  1. inflection of manducare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Participle

manducate f pl

  1. feminine plural of manducato

Latin

Verb

mandūcāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of mandūcō
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