RUMINATION
\ɹˌuːmɪnˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɹˌuːmɪnˈeɪʃən], \ɹ_ˌuː_m_ɪ_n_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of RUMINATION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud.
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The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder; deliberate meditation or reflection.
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The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, - occasionally observed as a morbid phenomenon in man.
By Oddity Software
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The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud.
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The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder; deliberate meditation or reflection.
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The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, - occasionally observed as a morbid phenomenon in man.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
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A function peculiar to ruminating animals, by which they chew a second time the food they have swallowed. An analogous phenomenon is sometimes seen in man. One who ruminates is in French merycole.
By Robley Dunglison
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The act or process of chewing the cud characteristic of the Ruminantia; in a pathological sense, merycism. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. Act of ruminating or chewing the cud: —deliberate meditation or reflection.
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