manducate

Verb

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

1. (literary, transitive) To chew (something); to masticate.
2. (literary, transitive) To eat (something).
   • If we manducate bread, then it is 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; to be cast forth, than to be torn in pieces with...1653 (indicated as 1654), “The Real Presence and Spiritual of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, Proved against the Doctrine of Transubstantiation. Section IX. Arguments from Other Scriptures, Proving...