Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pabulation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pab-u-la-tion
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of eating or feeding.

Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

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”).

Usage

Frequently Paired Words

pabulum

Questions

What does pabulation mean?: The act of eating or feeding.
Where does pabulation come from?: 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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