cibation

From Latin cibatio, from cibare (“to feed”).

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈbeɪʃən/, /saɪˈbeɪʃən/

cibation (countable and uncountable, plural cibations)

1. (obsolete) The act of consuming food.
2. (obsolete, alchemy) The operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material.
   • 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     fermentation and cibation

• “cibation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• bication