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noun
The act of eating or feeding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare, uncountable
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History
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”).
