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 a century!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge] Reference

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 his powers have withered, and that there is no remedy available for their recovery but incessant prayer and sacramental ordinances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference

At the latter he added, as a modification, the phrase "spiritual manducation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of John G. Fee: Berea, Kentucky] Reference

The remarkable passage on the spiritual manducation of the elements in Letter VIII. is commented on on p. 118.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference

He knew, moreover, that manducation and the absorption of fluids must be performed without audible gusto; the knowledge cost him some self-criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demos] Reference

The man who uses my Roget to find a synonym let us say for thanking for a ` meal 'will come up with such grotesquely inappropriate variants as: manducation, scoff, phytophagy, refection, and spread.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 3] Reference

It is not easy for Roman commentators to cite passages even apparently in support of the less spiritual view of the manducation, e.g. Fessler, Inst.Pat. i. 530, and the quotations under the word "Eucharistia," in the Index of Basil ed Migne.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference