manducation

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin mandūcātiō, from mandūcō (“to chew, to eat”) + -tiō. Compare French manducation. By surface analysis, manducate + -ion.

noun

The act of eating.
The belief that eating the bread of Eucharist is eating the actual flesh of Jesus.“a literal, corporal and oral manducation of the very substance of his flesh and blood”