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Definition of Cibation
1. n. The act of taking food.
Definition of Cibation
1. Noun. (obsolete) The act of taking food. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete alchemy) The operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cibation
1. a process used by alchemists [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cibation
Literary usage of Cibation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science Abstracts by Institution of Electrical Engineers (1900)
"... with horizontal pendulums, comparable results can be obtained only when the
pendulums are similar, have the same time of «ciBation. and when, moreover, ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Because o' your fermentation and cibation ?** SUB. Not I, by heaven DOL. Your Sol
and Luna help me. [To FACE.] SUB. Would I were hang'd then! ..."
3. The Best Elizabethan Plays by Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, John Webster (1890)
"1 The sixth and seventh processes; cibation was the feeding of the matter in
preparation with fresh substances; also, supplying what had been wasted by ..."
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