Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of grazing or foraging; the act of feeding or of procuring food to eat.
- noun Same as
pabulum .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of feeding, or providing food.
- noun obsolete Food; fodder; pabulum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, rare The act of
eating orfeeding .
Etymologies
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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").
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