Meaning of pabulation | Babel Free

Definitions

The act of eating or feeding.

obsolete, rare, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“Satisfied of this, Scobell commenced to fatten his comrade for another medical inspection, […] A week or two was enough for the process⟳ of pabulation; […]”

“[…] the country squire winces under the nauseous outpourings which are gulped as nectar by his shepherds and ploughmen. Again, the pabulation that would suit⟳ the squire, the shepherds and ploughmen would reject⟳ as dry and lifeless fetid bones.”

“What is formed into tissue or structure⟳ becomes, in turn⟳, pabulum for others, and so on until all the elements which make⟳ up one organism, are finally restored to their original realm through the ceaseless round of pabulation.”

“The cyclostoma, as its name⟳ implies, has a circular mouth, and is, moreover, devoid of upper and lower jaws. An organism with such circumscribed capabilities for pabulation must have⟳ been limited, regarding its food supply⟳, to stagnant slush that was brought near its stoma by friendly undulations of an emulsifying watery medium.”

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