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pabulation

pabulation noun: the act of eating or feeding.

Noun

pabulation (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) The act of eating or feeding.
    • The bell rings, and the herd rush violently down into a steep place in the fore part of the vessel, and the Captain amuses us while the pabulation is going on.1848, George Francklin Atkinson, Pictures from the North, in Pen and Pencil: Sketched during a Summer Ramble, John Ollivier, page 205
    • Satisfied of this, Scobell commenced to fatten his comrade for another medical inspection, […] A week or two was enough for the process of pabulation; […]1859, T. W. J. Connolly, The Romance of the Ranks, volume 1, Longman et al., page 142

Origin of pabulation

From pābulātiōn-, the stem of the Classical Latin pābulātiō (“action of collecting fodder or food; foraging”), from pābulor (“eat fodder, graze; collect fodder, forage”), from pābulum (“food, fodder”); compare the Middle French pabulation (“action of providing oneself with forage”).

Questions about pabulation

What does pabulation mean?
Pabulation means the act of eating or feeding.
What part of speech is pabulation?
Pabulation is a noun.

Words near pabulation in the dictionary

  1. pabstite
  2. Pabsts
  3. pabula
  4. pabular
  5. pabulary
  6. pabulation
  7. pabulous
  8. pabulum
  9. pabulums
  10. PABX
  11. pac

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