cibation
noun/sɪˈbeɪʃən/ · /saɪˈbeɪʃən/
Etymology From Latin cibatio, from cibare (“to feed”).
1
Obsolete The act of consuming food.
2
Alchemy, Pseudoscience Obsolete The operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material.
- fermentation and cibation1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, Act I, scene i: