Lexic.us

Definition of Masticate

1. Verb. Grind and knead. "Masticate rubber"

2. Verb. Chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth. "The cows were masticating the grass"

Definition of Masticate

1. v. t. To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.

Definition of Masticate

1. Verb. (transitive) To chew (food). ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To grind or knead something into a pulp. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Masticate

1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]

Medical Definition of Masticate

1. To chew your food and mix the food with saliva (08 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Masticate

masterwork masterworks masterwort masterworts mastery mastery motive mastful masthead mastheaded mastheading

mastheads masthouse masthouses mastic masticable masticate (current term) masticated masticater masticaters masticates

masticating masticating cycles masticating surface mastication mastications masticator masticator nerve masticatories masticators masticatory

Literary usage of Masticate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Phantom World: Or, The Philosophy of Spirits, Apparitions, &c by Augustin Calmet (1850)
"IT is an opinion widely spread in Germany, that certain dead persons masticate in their graves, and devour whatever may be close to them; that they are even ..."

2. Homœopathic Therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1890)
"Cancer of tongue, edges indurated, raised and knotty, speech difficult and indistinct, cannot masticate on account of pain. Kreosotum. ..."

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