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Usage examples (7)
  • I cannot help reminding you of the characteristic passage: 'Consider a city-feast,' he exclaims, 'what manducation, what deglutition, and yet not one Alderman choked in...
  • But spare us the repetition of those stale legends that man was made and unmade in the space of a few moments, and that ever since the manducation of the forbidden fruit...
  • At the latter he added, as a modification, the phrase "spiritual manducation."
  • The remarkable passage on the spiritual manducation of the elements in Letter VIII. is commented on on p. 118.
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